When you 'discover' a city that is not on OSM
ایہہ 4؍February 2017ء English وچ «ff5722» لیکھ چھپیا گیا سی۔If you map in the West you may come to think that the major stuff in OSM is done, but in developing countries, you may discover major unmapped features.
天地图+OSM data
Sentinel-2 (8 December 2016)
Discussion
ایہہ 4؍February 2017ء 13:56 تے «imagico» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
But that is not a city in terms of the meaning of place=city in OSM.
In general having settlements of this size not mapped beyond a node is nothing rare in OSM. It was not rare in Europe 5-7 years back either.
ایہہ 4؍February 2017ء 14:06 تے «d1g» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
An active Chinese mapper, what a wonder! :)
On a serious note, It can be that some mappers are not good at detecting roads-vs-paths in Chinese mountains using imagery, especially if this locality has no other sources.
ایہہ 10؍February 2017ء 11:49 تے «Claudius Henrichs» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
And even where we have a place-tag don’t forget that we have still tons of unmapped places: http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/unmapped#2/23.7/3.5