Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

2016-05-16 Thread Courtney Clark
Mikel Maron just clarified for me that there is a copy and paste function in iD (thank you, and my apologies!), however I think we could make it more obvious. I've never heard it mentioned at any trainings and there isn't anything that I can see in the iD interface that would tell a user they can

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

2016-05-16 Thread john whelan
iD isn't as strong as some editors for error checking so perhaps HOT could look at some tools for detecting errors, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance I'm thinking of Keep Right for example that checks for crossing ways and almost meeting highways which seem to be a blind spot

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

2016-05-16 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Courtney, I do not think the presets changes will address your suggestion. To me it makes me think of "step and repeat" so you draw a building once, select it and then just communicate, "duplicate this building to here, in a line" Thats a great idea. Cheers, Blake

Re: [HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

2016-05-16 Thread Nicholas Doiron
Related - I've been adding right-to-left language support for iD OSM editor. It was already translated to Arabic and Persian/Farsi, but typically sites flip their UI, so our main sidebar would appear on the right. We've got most technical parts done, so now we would much appreciate some fluent

[HOT] Request: Suggestions for improvements to iD OSM Web Editor

2016-05-16 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Everyone! HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community. A few

Re: [HOT] Moving the focus to JOSM in mapathons

2016-05-16 Thread Claire Halleux
Yep, that's what we've also been doing for years in DRC. The only issue is that there's always at least one or few participants without updated antivirus software and we always end up with at least one infected USB stick. The way around was using a rewritable CD... and an external CD/DVD reader,