I think that radomised controlled trials might well be useful. Perhaps we
could see which projects are successful and pick out those that the mappers
are more satisfied with but only on the premise that happy mappers are less
likely to drop out. I haven't expressed that well but I seethe
I would much prefer to see an officially approved method. People can give
more thought to it but the basic idea of a workflow for simple tasks using
JOSM I think is good. JOSM is easier than some people it credit for but
more to the point we get less area=yes instead of buildings=yes, highways
John, Ray,
I think the quick start guide is a very neat idea. I would need to try the
workflow and a few variations for myself.
For the time being I only have reservations about the trick
upload-and-cancel. It would be IMO simpler and better to guide people to
use consciously validation instead
Thank you for testing it.
The grab handle needs to be added, press and hold the right mouse button
then move the mouse.
From the mapper's point of view the building tool is very nice as you say,
marking the settlements then tagging them all once is much faster so you
feel as if you are
John,
Thanks for that - you've got some very good ideas there.
I've created issue https://github.com/hotosm/learnosm/issues/334
for learnOSM so we don't lose it can incorporate when we get the chance.
Thanks again.
Nick
On 07/03/15 12:02, john whelan wrote:
Thank you for testing it.
The
Probably having got them started with JOSM it might be an idea to have a
small series of how to map a to extend it. My thought might be how to
map a tree, its basic but by referencing the map features page of the wiki
and then natural=tree http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
you
I believe I have a more elegant way for mass taggings. For example if I
want to add the roads in a community that hasn't been tagged before;
usually the roads are all highway=residential. Steps:
- I draw all roads, ignoring crossings, not yet adding tags
- I select all drawn lines using
Hey Ray,
Some shortcuts for JOSM are here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Keyboard_Shortcuts
The learning materials for OSM are constantly being developed and improved.
MapGive created some nice intro materials
http://mapgive.state.gov/learn-to-map/. HOT is still actively working on
Right the basic idiot guide.
First write down your OSM userid and password.
For task 917 we only care about highways, settlements and buildings.
Buildings if only because if there is one in isolation sometimes we like to
map it rather than call it a landuse=residential.
Start JOSM up, in the
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:12:21 -0500
john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping
before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed
buildings, lots of highways separated by a few inches etc.
Do we need an idiot
John -
Wow. That was actually an amazing help.
I am not sure how adding a plugin can be made intuitive for someone
doing it the first time without this level of detail.
I also think part of my problem is going from slippy maps, like what we
have been using on the web for years, and the iPhone
Just for the heck of it I ran JOSM validation on a tile I was mapping
before touching it. It turned up duplicate buildings, crossed buildings,
lots of highways separated by a few inches etc.
Do we need an idiot guide? A sort of this is how to provide the maximum
benefit for the least effort.
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