On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Bryan Housel <br...@7thposition.com> wrote:
> Thanks Dale, I’m hoping to get this orthogonal drawing tool merged > sometime next month. > > Being able to draw square buildings quickly in iD is a cool feature, but > not as high priority as other things that we have been working on. > Definitely take a look through the iD changelog at what we’ve been able to > ship in the last few months, I’m really proud of the work done by our > mostly volunteer contributors. > > Some points: > - The squareness of buildings is not very important for rescue workers or > other HOT partners. > - Features can be squared or retagged very efficiently in JOSM. > - When you see features drawn imprecisely in iD, it’s probably safe to > assume that the user is using a laptop trackpad (i.e. no mouse), or worse, > using a touch input device like a tablet. Improving iD support for touch > and pen devices is also high on my priority list. > > Bryan, Thanks for your great work on the iD Editor. The new mappers whom I have introduced to OSM through mapathons often comment about how easy the process is! A related issue with regards to the current squaring functionality is that iD apparently will only square a building if it is already close to being square. During mapathons we instruct mappers to draw the building and then hit 's' to square. Most of them follow directions, but the result is often buildings that are not square because the tool didn't do anything, and didn't warn the user that it wasn't doing anything. We now try to explain that they have to check to make sure the tool did something, and if not, attempt to redraw the building and click 's' again.... but that is more details for them to handle, remember and execute. Mike > >
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