Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:25:35 -0400 john whelan wrote: > > It's something I've noticed in Africa so its probably not putting new > mappers through a month's training first but many villages have been > mapped but tagged as a single building with building=yes. > > They

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

2017-03-27 11:56 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier : > And while we're at it, the next most frequent building tagging mistake: > outlining the building on orbital imagery at roof level instead of base > level... Explaining that pictures are not always taken from the > vertical usually

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

areasize:300- works quite well. I picked up nine of them. You get a fair amount of large buildings mixed in but its doable with the todo list plugin. The maesurement tool helps as well. Thanks John On 26 March 2017 at 02:04, Jo wrote: > JOSM comes with a measurement

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

JOSM comes with a measurement plugin :-) I drew a square somewhere in Africa with sides of about 100m and the area is about 1m2. For giggles, I then grabbed it and dropped it in Europe. Now the circumference is 255m, so one side 65m and the area became 4047 square meters. Cheers, and hurray

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

I'll need to play around but by using building followed by remove addr, name etc I can start to pick them out. What exactly is areasize measured in?How can I determine an areasize? Thanks John On 25 March 2017 at 20:05, Jo wrote: > Hi John, > > When I first saw your

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

Hi John, When I first saw your message, I looked into Overpass API, but no luck. In JOSM areasize would definitely work. You'll have to find a sweetspot around 100- so building areasize:100- or possibly 500 or 1000. Polyglot 2017-03-25 19:34 GMT+01:00 john whelan : >

Re: [HOT] [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

Hi John, The OSM Changeset Analyzer let's select bbox and option parameters including big building. To test if it provides too many positive answers. There could be an other option for very big buildings?? example with reason 34 Large buildings