Hello everyone,
i am trying to map grids for my town. it takes very long to do and wastes time. how can i map grids faster?
thank you,
DMP5
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Hello everyone,
i am trying to map grids for my town. it takes very long to do and wastes time. how can i map grids faster?
thank you,
DMP5
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Comment from Mapping Expert on 14 October 2019 at 20:24
What exactly do you want to do? If you want to do something like what I did in Vondréaux, then I can help you.
For that you must use JOSM, use an example grid and copy and paste it wherever you want to create an urban pattern. Then, you can add streets of any kind and thus expand your city faster.
If you have any other questions, you can ask it in my messages.
Mapping Expert
Comment from wangi on 14 October 2019 at 22:10
You can map them much faster by using JOSM. However, faster isn’t better. A cookie-cutter grid isn’t realistic, it lacks the unique differences present in every real town/city…
Comment from Mapping Expert on 14 October 2019 at 23:17
I agree with wangi at that point. Faster is not better. My purpose is to create spaces and then detail them at the end of the work. But you have to keep in mind that a city cannot be composed exclusively of square blocks, it must have curved roads, mountains that change the urban environment and other details that make it better.
Comment from plainoldbread on 16 October 2019 at 21:27
If you’re American or Canadian, boring grids are normal in downtown cores which is easy to map if you use JOSM or iD. It just quicker to use JOSM. Suburbs are way easier and faster to make in iD (atleast for me).
Comment from iiEarth on 17 October 2019 at 04:41
Grids are not usually ‘spammed’ and are mostly around one location, rather than making the whole town/city, though.
Comment from DudeMap555 on 19 October 2019 at 00:22
Dear Mapping Expert,
what do you exactly mean by “Spaces”?
-DMP5
Comment from Mapping Expert on 20 October 2019 at 12:57
@DudeMap555
If you look in Vondréaux, you can see an area with grids marked at 343.5 m. and others in 274.4 m., where space is created to map buildings in the city. Those spaces mentioned above are those that I refer to by the term “spaces”.
However, I make the important observation that you should not use these “spaces” throughout the city. Only in a specific area such as the metropolitan center (or in my case, the oldest part of the city after Fort Vondréaux).
Happy mapping, Mapping Expert
Comment from coshatiuav on 24 October 2019 at 05:05
To answer your question effectively, there are plugins (gridify and create_grid_of_ways) in JOSM that create grids automatically. But looking around OGF, many cities are just masses of perfect grids that look unappealing quickly. Real cities would twist them following natural elements, or have irregularities due to historic roads. Check Buenos Aires (osm.org/#map=13/-34.6157/-58.4066) for a good example.