Hi Blake, This is a great tuto, would it be possible to share the original pics for translations? I have started making short screenvideos for some mapping processes. Are they are mute, they do not require translation (but bandwith). But obviously they cannot give a general overview as a before/after does.
Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Blake Girardot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > We have talked about making them more widely available and we do include > them in some of the W. Africa instructions or pass them out to mappers > individually, sometimes as part of validation feedback. > > I have a short list of revisions is partly why I have not moved them out > from my personal page yet in the wiki and called them "done" > > As to the huts: It can go either way, but it is my understanding we > usually try and map the building footprints as it provides just a little > bit more data, approximate size and can help when working physically on > ground for orienting yourself a little better than just a point on a map. > > But it is up to the project manager to determine what data they need v. > how fast it can be generated. In one circumstance just getting a building > count and structures represented on the map quickly could be a lot more > important than whatever else we gain by an actual building footprint. > > And sometimes the circumstances of mapping affecting things. If you are > working in the field on a smart phone collecting building locations off > line and entering data for each building, outlines would be impossible. > > As to drawing the huts quickly, you might already know these things in > JOSM, but just in case: > > When you copy/paste, where you hold the cursor will be the center of the > pasted object. So hold your mouse pointer directly in the center of the hut > to paste. > > Then with the newly pasted building selected, hold control-alt keys down > and you can resize the object you just pasted based on the center of the > pasted object. That lets you quickly get the pasted hut the correct size. > > Cheers, > Blake > > > > > > > On 3/14/2015 12:35 PM, john whelan wrote: > >> Could the link >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_ >> African_HOT_Mapping_Tips >> be added to the instructions of all HOT West African projects? >> >> I wasn't aware of it before the post on Surface mines characteristics >> and it clarified a couple of things for me. It's certainly useful when >> validating to have a reference to point enthusiastic mappers to. >> >> If possible could an image showing two or three small settlements of say >> three or four huts joined together with what I would normally think of >> as footpaths to show how these should be mapped and the connecting >> highways tagged. I've noticed some variation between the mappers when >> validating. >> >> Could we also have a guideline on huts? I've seen them mapped as a >> single point and as a circle. In JOSM its very quick to copy and paste >> a hut but that does mean slight variations in size are not mapped >> correctly. >> >> The other issue would be isolated buildings, I tend to map the building >> rather than tag it landuse=residential again a guideline would be useful. >> >> Rather than overwhelm the mapper with the idea that everything >> guidelined needs to be mapped I suggest somewhere it says perhaps in the >> instructions "For this project please map the roads and settlements >> according to the guidelines here: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot/West_ >> African_HOT_Mapping_Tips" >> >> Thanks John >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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