I agree. In my opinion JOSM is not much harder to learn than iD. I question why it has its reputation. It has many more menus and tools but I don't think that is a deterrent to learning the basics and getting started.
The installation instructions could be better, and for different operating systems - that could be easily fixed. For tracing buildings I would not require JOSM, but would more strongly recommend it in task instructions. Steve On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:45 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is definitely slow time and not something to distract HOT at the > moment. > > Mapping buildings is not my favourite occupation. I reward myself by > breaking off and sending the odd email etc from time to time so the figures > below are not head down hard mapping of buildings. > > However I noticed that in a one hour session in Nepal I mapped around six > hundred buildings using JOSM building_tool including one or two odd shaped > ones <shift>J thanks to Blake's video. > > If I look at the tiles I'm working on I see that half the mappers only map > twenty buildings or less and there aren't that many mappers mapping over a > hundred buildings in a tile. > > Does it matter? If we were paying mappers for their time then yes it > would, we aren't but even so think how much more quickly we could complete > projects with the same resources and we won't even talk about data quality > issues. > > I understand that JOSM has acquired a reputation for being hard to teach > and use by some but perhaps with suitable guidelines we can get a bit more > productivity out of our mappers? > > Cheerio John > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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