I was at a presentation yesterday given by Stats Canada to the local University. They're using a customised version of iD to map buildings. It has more restricted tag set. Using a mouse the presenter was able to accurately map a square building without difficulty so it would appear the misshapes we see are people trying to map without using a mouse.
Perhaps having a customised version of iD with a subset of the available tags might help HOT. Highways for example could be restricted to the values in the African Wiki. Certainly for HOT projects I think highway=motorway could be omitted. Cheerio John On 16 November 2016 at 07:10, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > JOSM on a USB stick needs to be set up. It involves JOSM, JAVA and a > browser being installed on the USB stick with some software to make it all > stick together so JOSM can run from the USB stick and the remote control > made to work. Perhaps Mike or Jo have the instructions lying around > somewhere, I seem to recall them being on the JOSM site. > > The untagged ways aren't a big deal, it's just someone sitting at a > computer and adding tags, provided some else doesn't remove them first. > Duplicated ways JOSM can handle these in an automated way, they're just > indicators of data quality more than anything else. > > Cheerio John > > On 16 November 2016 at 05:00, Douglas Ssebaggala < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, great feedback, >> >> >> The untagged ways and duplicated nodes are a common scenario, it's great >> that there's such discoveries that can be made. Perhaps there could be a >> documentation on these recent common mistakes on the wiki, so that the >> local and new mappers can avoid and correct these. >> >> JOSM pre-loaded USB drives are handy for any mapathon, will share all >> this info with organisers of geoweek activities. >> >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:06 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I also have a small stack of USB drives that will run JOSM. >>> >>> Cheerio John >>> >>> On 15 November 2016 at 16:49, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> JOSM with the building tool plug in is seen as too complicated by many >>>>> mapathon organisers. >>>>> >>>> The building tool itself isn't too complicated, JOSM itself isn't even >>>> too complicated, it is getting it installed on everyone's machine. They >>>> have to have Java 8, an OS that supports Java 8, download JOSM, install the >>>> building plugin, turn on remote control, restart JOSM, and accept the https >>>> cert for remote control. I have made some USB thumb drives pre loaded with >>>> Java, JOSM and the necessary plugins that solves all of these issues except >>>> for the OS. So far I have it working for Windows and Linux. I think it >>>> will work on Mac, but just haven't gotten that far yet. I plan on using >>>> these at a future mapathon. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >> *Mapping Supervisor "Financial Services", Uganda >> >> Email: [email protected] >> Skype: douglo.m >> Twitter: @douglaseru <https://twitter.com/douglaseru> >> UG Mobile: +256 772 422 524 >> >> *Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development* >> web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook >> <https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <http://hotosm.org/donate> >> >> >
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