Hi Courtney, I do not think the presets changes will address your suggestion.
To me it makes me think of "step and repeat" so you draw a building once, select it and then just communicate, "duplicate this building to here, in a line" Thats a great idea. Cheers, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Vice President, HOT Board of Directors skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Courtney Clark <courtneycla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > This might already be part of the presets that you mentioned, but it would > be great to have the capacity to "copy and paste" buildings. In Botswana, > for example, where Peace Corps does a lot of mapping, the government > provides a lot of housing to its employees. Many of the houses are the same > shape and size -- it would be great to trace once and then copy and paste > that shape over other structures. > > Thanks, > > Courtney > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Nicholas Doiron <ni...@codeforamerica.org> > wrote: >> >> Related - I've been adding right-to-left language support for iD OSM >> editor. It was already translated to Arabic and Persian/Farsi, but typically >> sites flip their UI, so our main sidebar would appear on the right. >> >> We've got most technical parts done, so now we would much appreciate some >> fluent speakers looking it over. Please get in touch or connect me with >> interested mappers! >> >> Discussion and code here: >> https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/3087 >> >> Thanks, >> Nick Doiron >> >> On May 16, 2016 9:00 PM, "Blake Girardot HOT/OSM" >> <blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone! >>> >>> HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to >>> the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical >>> HOT and Missing Maps OSM editing. As part of that process we would >>> like to get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community. >>> >>> A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT >>> are: >>> >>> * A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round) >>> buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already) >>> >>> * Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps >>> projects (already in process, but not close to done) >>> >>> * Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to >>> being done already) >>> >>> But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways >>> that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping >>> projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our >>> projects. >>> >>> Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new >>> mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects. >>> >>> Obviously there is limited development time available so most things >>> will not be done in the short or medium term, but let us see together >>> if there are any quick wins we might be able to identify. >>> >>> Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw >>> other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a >>> suggestion for how to actually address those issues. >>> >>> We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github >>> repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD >>> developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk >>> (not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan >>> Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different >>> directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of >>> needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions >>> and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is >>> the great tool it is. >>> >>> The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM >>> editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure >>> we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use >>> to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify >>> those things and help get them implemented through feedback and >>> testing and maybe even some code contributions if anyone is interested >>> in doing that. >>> >>> So as I said, please, if you have a few minutes to share some thoughts >>> on the iD editor it would be most appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Blake >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------- >>> Blake Girardot >>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >>> Vice President, HOT Board of Directors >>> skype: jblakegirardot >>> HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> HOT mailing list >>> HOT@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > Innovation Specialist, Peace Corps > Member, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Guinea 2012-2014 > Loyola University Chicago > 231-740-9595 | courtneycla...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
