Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-05 Thread Suzan Reed
In Nepal villages are not a group of buildings close together. Buildings can be 100 to 500 feet apart, and yet everyone who lives there considers themselves a part of the community. I see small Residential Area designations around a small group of buildings, but this may be just one family or

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Klaus Hartl
Hi HOT, with this message I’m not particularly answering the previous one rather than intending to jump on that topic due to some misunderstandings I got notified by concerned users via private message (which I’ll post here), on which a little clarification is needed. If the following issues

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Banick
Hi Klaus, First of all, thanks for providing such a measured response to a not very measured message. I’m sorry you got such a rude message in the first place and want to assure you that it doesn’t reflect HOT’s attitude, both stated by the organization and unstated within the community,

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Mike Thompson
p.s.: I just took a look at the *Building Tools* Plugin for JOSM[2], which kind of supersedes my two-pass contribution approach by providing a neat two-and-a-half-click action for creating a perfect, orthogonal building shape. ... and that can be combined with the JOSM extrude function[1]

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Hartl k...@gmx.de À : Robert Banick rban...@gmail.com Cc : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 4 mai 2015 13h06 Objet : Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings Hello Robert, thank you for your response! Regarding your second remark, which is quite the unemotional and pragmatic evaluation

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread john whelan
John, that’s worrisome. Is it because buildings are oddly shaped or people are just being sloppy? I repeatedly see an area of buildings labeled building=yes rather than landuse=residential, typically square buildings are mapped with four nodes but an odd shape and typically larger than the

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Thanks Travis, Some thoughts for our activation committee. regard    Pierre De : Travis Driessen travis.dries...@pdx.edu À : Klaus Hartl k...@gmx.de Cc : hot@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Lundi 4 mai 2015 13h48 Objet : Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings Hey Klaus, Robert, et al

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-04 Thread Travis Driessen
...@gmx.de *Cc :* hot@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Lundi 4 mai 2015 13h48 *Objet :* Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings Hey Klaus, Robert, et al, My name is Travis Driessen and I am a Urban Planning master's student studying smart growth here in Portland, Oregon. Klaus, Robert Pierre, you

[HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-03 Thread Phil Allford
1. Should I delete the single node tag for a house when I trace a building? JOSM warns of object within object... I left the original tags. 2. I believe it was #518, how do I go back to the same task again? ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-03 Thread Dan S
Hi - 2015-05-03 22:03 GMT+01:00 Phil Allford pallf...@gmail.com: 1. Should I delete the single node tag for a house when I trace a building? JOSM warns of object within object... I left the original tags. Yes, delete it - it's important not to lose any extra tags that might be there, so make

Re: [HOT] Tracing tagged buildings

2015-05-03 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Sunday, May 3, 2015, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - 2015-05-03 22:03 GMT+01:00 Phil Allford pallf...@gmail.com javascript:; : 1. Should I delete the single node tag for a house when I trace a building? JOSM warns of object within object... I left the original tags. Yes,