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1 year ago Multipolygon objects should be added/modified taking into account the local mapping style, that means investigation of adding landuse areas in the city is required before the active mapping stage.
If I recall correctly, you’ve already clarified in Slack that your team will avoid interfering with already-mapped landuse areas that correspond to named retail complexes and the like. I’d appreciate if you could include a reminder of that in the policy, since these named landuse areas have often required local knowledge or ground surveying to map, and modifying them would result in a misleadingly named feature. Thank you!
Summary
In an effort to improve the coverage of retail and commercials areas in cities across North America, the Lyft OSM Data Curation Team is undertaking efforts to resolve issues with multypologons that contain landuse tag based on multiples evidences (like aerial images, POIs, and knowledge of local mappers). Multipolygon objects should be added/modified taking into account the local mapping style, that means investigation of adding landuse areas in the city is required before the active mapping stage.
Project documentation
Retail & Commercial areas policy
Features Mapped
Relation:multipolygon
landuse=retail landuse=commercial
Quality Control
To keep the quality of our map edits at a high level of accuracy, we apply a quality control (QC) process on 100% of tasks. Each task will be QCed before being published to OSM. Our QCers are checking the logic of the adding/modifying polygonal objects. If the curator accidentally removed/added wrong tags, or the geometry of the multipolygonal added incorrectly, the task will be returned to the curator to correct it based on the QCer’s comment.
Ground Truth Resources*
Street-level imagery (Mapillary, Bing) Lyft-owned aerial and street-level images OSM changesets will be submitted abiding by the OSM Changeset Guidelines. *Additional resources used in curating and QCing this project can be found in our Resources Wiki.