Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread SomeoneElse
On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the building outline with its roof. Doing this, I ran into some trouble. http://i.imgur.com/vaOFIb5.gif The road intersect the building. This would not happen if we instead just

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:16:41AM +0200, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the building outline with its roof. Doing this, I ran into some trouble. http://i.imgur.com/vaOFIb5.gif The road intersect the building. This would not

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Matt Williams
Hi Arne, I was always taught to align buildings with their base. Often the easiest way to do this is to trace the outline of the roof and then move the whole shape to align with the base but either way, the base should be aligned. This is to avoid exactly this type of problem. I'm not sure where

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Hi Arne, If it were me, I would just move the road outside as in reality it doesn't pass through the building. This am sure is as a result of the height of the building, Hope this helps. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.github.io | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:16

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks all. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.github.io | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:56:30AM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings,

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Arne Jakobsson
Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2015, at 12:15, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:56:30AM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the building outline with its

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Arne Jakobsson
I will hence align with building base. Thank you for your reply. Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2015, at 11:54, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:16:41AM +0200, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:56:30AM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw buildings, and was taught somewhere that we should align the building outline with its roof. Doing this, I ran into some trouble. http://i.imgur.com/vaOFIb5.gif The road

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Arne Jakobsson
Are you sure moving THE ROAD is the way to go? I mean, the road is where it is. A map map roads primarily. Having posted this issue here I have now come to my own conclusion to always stick to aligning with building bases and not roofs. Depending on the angle the aerial photo was taken, the

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Arne Jakobsson
Thanks for the tip! I will keep that in mind when re-iterating, correcting previous work. Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2015, at 12:15, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:56:30AM +0100, SomeoneElse wrote: On 12/06/2015 10:16, Arne Jakobsson wrote: Hi all, I draw

Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment

2015-06-12 Thread Bill Kathy Patterson
other and roughly the same height. Bill From: Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de To: Help for newbie mappers newbies@openstreetmap.org Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Buildning alignment As the parallax-shift is the same for the full of the sat image you can