>John, without weighing in on your main point (to which I'm generally
sympathetic), in the cases you speak of where it's easier to map from
scratch, why not just do so and use ctrl+shift+g to preserve history?
Probably because I have very little interest in correcting buildings.
Cheerio John
On
>One other thing is when I start with a new task, sometimes a lot of work
is already done but also sometimes very poorly, buildings not squared or
misplaced. I wonder, should I correct that or leave it for the validators?
Hi Henk. Yes, the idea is to ensure the square is in a finished state
>One other thing is when I start with a new task, sometimes a lot of work
is already done but also sometimes very poorly, buildings not squared or
misplaced. I wonder, should I correct that or leave it for the validators?
Interesting question I think its like hoping the fairies will come in the
Hey all,
I agree with Blake iD is absolutely the best tool to use for new mappers.
Yes is requires a bit more clean up from a validator but that is ok, and is
best practice anyway.
The iD team is working on the building tool but doesn't have a release
date. Having this tool would be a game
: "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM"<blake.girar...@hotosm.org>
To:"hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings with new mappers at a maperthon
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Certain projects have a validator sitting on them.
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2657
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2656
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3770
https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/3732
are four. There are others.
Everything you mark as done will be validated, if your work
Dear Everybody,
I'm one of the new mappers and a read alle these mails with great interest.
I just started to map 6 months ago because of an article in our local
paper. First I started to map with ID, very easy to use but recently I
learned myself to work with JOSM and the building plugin.
My
Dear friends,
thanks for the replies and engaging discussion. Can I propose that we start
a google document to put down some of the ideas, and perhaps organise a
follow-up chat or community seminar where the ideas can be discussed
further? Outcomes can then be added to http://learnosm.org/en/
The interesting thing is when the very experienced iD specialist mapped a
building they did it by placing a dot in the four corners of the building
then the ways and tag were added very quickly by a short cut perhaps?
By placing the four corners first you could see clearly where they should
go.
Having spent considerable time fixing iD editor squares non-square
buildings, with random shared nodes, connected to roads, and areas, getting
a better first time result is so important.
I pains where you come across a square that they have clearly spent quite a
lot of time mapping all the ins
Hi,
A lot of this would be addressed if iD had a building mapping tool
like JOSM does. I am going to restart the effort to get that added in
to iD, I have some new ideas for how we might be able to accomplish
it. I think it would save literally hundreds of hours volunteer time
fixing buildings
and I totally concur with what Ralph has said.
We asked people who were attending to install JAVA before they arrived and
I had josm-tested.jar available on a DVD to minimise the stress on the wifi
network. I had a USB DVD device with me and a bag of mice. The particular
maperthon I was at was a
A useful guide to running your Mapathon can be found here
http://learnosm.org/en/coordination/mapathon/
There is no hard and fast rule to running a successful Mapathon. As I point
out, each Mapathon will evolve at it’s own pace and in it’s own direction
dependent the expertise of the people
I'm not a great person for maperthons, the last one I attended could have
gone a little smoother, there was a time delay before mapping. They were
mapping buildings and highways and although they were mapping for some time
no tiles were completed.
Recently there was another one locally which I
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