How to map a huge number of buildings packed together, for example in Asia?

[dpolovinkin]

Hi forum!
Already googled, but couldn’t find a solution, decided to ask other mappers here.
The question is actually quite simple - how do you map places like this?

A lot of times I’m seeing such places in various countries around the world, this is from Vietnam, for example.
Mapping them all individually - is either in the brink of being impossible to do correctly, or just will take unreasonable amount of time. One of solutions I saw in some places - someone map it all as a one huge building, others as a residential area, but if there is already a big res area there - what do you recommend to do, how do more experienced mappers here deal with this?

Thanks!

[rhhs (Richard)]

@dpolovinkin

Mapping them all individually - is either in the brink of being impossible to do correctly, or just will take unreasonable amount of time.

Making a map of the world takes “unreasonable amount of time” yet that’s what we’re all doing here. So eventually it is desirable to map each individual building, even though it is a lot of work and will introduce some errors, but it is better than not mapping it and much better than mapping it as one huge building.

[Koreller]

I’ll will be “unreasonable” to map one capital alone… so imagine two !