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Can I assume orthoimagery is the best for tracing buildings? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by BitSound@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I'm trying to correct local buildings on OSM. I've noticed that some of the buildings were traced before according to one set of satellite images, but are off according to others. One of the options for a background while editing that I've got is called orthoimagery. Can I assume that that is the best set of satellite images for tracing buildings from?

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[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Usually roads have lots of gps tracks, so you can adjust the image offsets to match the gps tracks.