I'm sorry for having used a four letter word to express how deeply I'm disappointed that developing a tool to create a rectangle and marking it building=yes in one go with just 3 mouse clicks takes this long.
This is causing other people to lose countless hours of their precious time on validating tasks and burning out, like I did. All the more power to you John for still hanging in there! Polyglot 2017-04-11 0:31 GMT+02:00 Jo <winfi...@gmail.com>: > Hi John, > > I feel your pain. While demoing JOSM to a potential GSoC candidate I > downloaded a building block in Mozambique. Almost all the buildings were > tagged area=yes! This is a problem with the iD editor that we reported 18 > months ago and it's up to JOSM validators to resolve them. Life is just too > short. It's beyond belief that the iD developers cannot get their shit > straight, even afer all this time. > > Anyway, for our National Mapathon I had created the following (since we > had Windows computers with Java installed available): > > https://github.com/osmbe/JOSMforMapathons > > You can download it as a zip from github. > > Then run the josm_tested.cmd > <https://github.com/osmbe/JOSMforMapathons/blob/master/josm_tested.cmd>. > This will call the powershell script, which downloads JOSM and starts it > with settings for remote control enabled. Somehow it's still necessary to > download the plugins, but the useful ones are already selected. > > I hope this helps to organise more mapathons were users are taught to map > with JOSM right from the start. It takes a bit longer to get them going, > but the users are so much more productive and validators will come in > hordes to thank you :-) > > Polyglot > > > 2017-04-10 23:50 GMT+02:00 john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>: > >> I've been looking at one section of Africa and tagging untagged ways and >> area=yes ways. It's a very small % of the entire continent. >> >> So far in the last couple of days I've tagged nearly 800 buildings and I >> have another 350 untagged ways to go through. >> >> Looking at the mappers and the profiles many of these seem to be from a >> number of recent building only projects. Now these should be some of the >> simplest things to map. >> >> Missing 1,000 buildings in this area alone by not tagging them to me is >> significant. It might not be to others. >> >> My estimate is of the buildings that are mapped 30% are not square or the >> building image and the mapping are different in size. This is a >> conservative estimate. >> >> To save my fingers and wading through the to_do list could a bit more >> effort be made on the JOSM building_tool plugin front. Jo / Polygot has a >> recipe for running it from a USB stick. It is simple to use and very >> difficult to misstag. >> >> You get more buildings out of the mappers and best of all you don't get >> 45 tiles on one project marked done as I've seen by a mapper who had mapped >> 186 buildings but managed not to tag them. >> >> This means the project data isn't reliable and in my experience end users >> like reliability. I'm not sure why, my programmers always thought that the >> speed the programs ran at was more important. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> HOT@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >
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