I used https://streets.gl for the “Google Earth” view of the OSM data.
Much of the work was done with the help of https://rapideditor.org/, although there was also a LOT of manual tracing and corrections along the way.
We have so much new development in the area that I had to rely on some pretty updated satellite images and local surveying to get most of that done (with more to be done in the future as several hundred more homes go up this year).
I used a combination of Bing, ESRI world imagery (the regular, not “clarity” beta), and Maxxar Premium imagery.
Totally worth it!
Good work! How does Rapid compare with iD, in your experience?
In the standard editior you have to find and then trace buildings by hand, which can can tedious and very time consuming. That’s what I was doing before someone told me about Rapid.
Rapid will highlight buildings that have yet to be mapped, and then you either approve or decline each one. Very few are perfect, so I do manually adjust the trace that Rapid provides, and sometimes it’s just plain off. Still much faster. The only issue it has is with new developments that aren’t on their map to be identified. Those I do nearly always by hand.
I’ve only used Rapid for buildings and not their other features.