Hi John, There are a number of other tutorial videos here on the HOT Youtube page that have subtitles in English, Spanish and some in French:
https://www.youtube.com/user/hotosm/videos Andrew On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 7:17 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > The French tutorial is actually very useful. I'm working in the odd > corners of Africa at the moment. The mappers come from all over the world > often working in maperthons. > > I think my hang up is data quality so I mainly do validation these days. > I think in the last week I've tagged over a hundred untagged ways or > area=yes, I wouldn't like to say how many highway=road I've retagged in the > last week but its in the hundreds. Highway=road unfortunately is the tag > given to GPS tracks that have been converted into a highway where the > person who does the conversion doesn't know if there are steps in a > footpath or if its a motorway. As a result many of routing programs will > ignore them. > > Another problem is new mappers not completing a tile then other new > mappers coming along behind and copying the first mappers mistakes. > Because the tile hasn't been completed even if there is a validator on the > project it doesn't get validated or corrected so the problems get > compounded. > > Actually another problem I'm seeing is all the highways within a > landuse=residential being tagged highway=residential. Fine until you > realise that the routing software will try to avoid routing traffic down > backstreets and suddenly there is no routable path across the town. > > So in some parts of the map perhaps 30% or more of the work is ignored > until its retagged and that's what I'm trying to avoid by finding ways to > make JOSM easier to use. > > Blake's videos are great but unfortunately he speaks with an American > accent. I find it fairly easy to understand but there are people in the > world whose first language is English who will have to rewind once or twice > to catch the words. Accents are regional, believe it or not some people > even have problems with my English accent. Looking at the mappers I'm > validating the ones with the most problems are those who use English as a > second language or even just Bing / Google translate it. The French > tutorial is much more useful for them as they can cut and paste it into > Google or Bing translate. > > On a side note I'm handholding a Statistics Canada project at the moment > so any French documentation is very useful to feed back to them. The > project is about adding data to OpenStreetMap then doing some stats on the > result. The cultures at Stats and OSM are very different but its coming > along quite nicely albeit a little slower than their project manager would > like. > > Cheerio John > > On 2 October 2016 at 04:50, Martin Noblecourt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> We also have similar tutorial in French (I know, not very helpful here, >> would it be relevant to translate it?): >> >> http://blog.cartong.org/2014/07/24/tuto-digitaliser-sous-ope >> nstreetmap-avec-le-tasking-manager-et-josm-premiers-pas/ >> >> Else the video Blake sent is the best we have I think. >> >> Best >> >> Martin >> >> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 06:47:42 +0200 >> From: Blake Girardot <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> To: john whelan <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [HOT] JOSM for HOT can someone point me at a basic >> tutorial? >> Message-ID: >> <CABmB++QFrwk1XjBLh5PPYd445+TUri0uUUP=ltlgpr0mc8r...@mail.gmail.com> >> <CABmB++QFrwk1XjBLh5PPYd445+TUri0uUUP=ltlgpr0mc8r...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> Hi John, >> >> Far from perfect, but I believe the "JOSM for iD Users" youtube vids >> covers most of that (might need one on imagery use in JOSM, hopefully >> it comes across though): >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54o5PaKgnbKU-vXe11cSmmsxIYnL5oDU >> >> Feedback from your friend welcome. >> >> Regards, >> Blake >> >> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:19 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > So how to install, how to add remote control and building_tool plugin, >> > how> to map a square building, a highway and a landuse=residential. How >> > to> select Bing imagery.>> How to toggle the screen ie use the tab key >> > when you lose the stuff on the> right.>> And finally how to upload. So >> > setting the token.>> Yes I know about learnOSM but I have a fairly keen >> > mapper who has been told> that JOSM is too complex which is fine except I >> > have to clean up after them> with the crossing ways and highways nearly >> > meeting when they are quite> capable of doing it themselves and I want >> > something basic not how to map a> relationship because that is not what >> > most of the HOT stuff is.>> Thanks John>> >> > _______________________________________________> HOT mailing list> >> > [email protected]> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- 600,000 DC residents don't have a vote in Congress -- http://www.dcvote.org/ <http://www.dcvote.org/about/index.cfm>
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