Just some small advise: if you pass around an osm USB stick, put not only software on it, but make sure there are also some training guides on it that people easily can copy-past. Eg. https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/wiki/English-Learning-Guides
2016-11-17 15:39 GMT+01:00 joost schouppe <[email protected]>: > > 2016-11-17 14:45 GMT+01:00 john whelan <[email protected]>: > >> 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. >> > > I've seen many people draw strangely shaped buildings during mapathons, > always with a mouse. It is more a matter of interpreting satellite pictures > than anything else. For example, understanding the difference between a > shadow and the building, or following the outline of the roof instead of > the ground imprint. > > >> 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. >> >> I like the sound of that. It would be cool if you could determine the > available tags in ID from the Tasking Manager task setup manager. There > would have to be some kind of warning in the editor though; something like > "This is a limited version. If you want to be able to add things not asked > in this task, click here to break out". > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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