All this is a reminder to everyone to keep the language and intent of statements in a respectful manner. The iD developers and mainteners work very hard to manage the project and do a very good job. I know some of you have frustrations but please be respectful of others time and efforts as well.
Dale On Apr 11, 2017 11:43 AM, "Jo" <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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