This sounds dangerous, though, for instances when buildings have
non-rectangular corners (which in my experience is often the case). Such
a tool would be an invitation to unwillingly mess up such buildings.
On 26/04/2016 17:10, Andrew Wiseman wrote:
Maybe someone could build a tool in JOSM to be able to select an area
of buildings and square them all at once? Right now you have to
individually select them and that takes a while, because the Q button
won't work if a node is also selected. Or maybe tweak the
functionality of Q so it ignores nodes?
I was just doing this, manually selecting non-square buildings, for an
OSM exercise in a class I teach, it was very time consuming.
Andrew
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM, John Whelan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Perhaps another question to ask then is is it too complex for new
mappers to use when mapping buildings?
If we can accept odd shaped buildings that aren't quite the right
size then fine it is the right tool for the job, but if we want
fairly accurate building sizes and square corners on squared
buildings so population estimates can be made then it appears from
the results we see that it requires more training and a higher
standard of mapping than new mappers are capable of with the
current levels of training. In other words it doesn't matter how
good a tool it is or what it is capable of if the new mappers
don't understand how to use it.
And we still haven't really come to a conclusion about whether
having squared buildings matters.
Cheerio John
Paul Norman wrote:
It's been stated a few times but since there's still confusion:
iD has a button to square features. It has had this feature since
before it was released.
We need to stop wrongly blaming iD, as it's not productive at
figuring out what to change, and where.
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