Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

If you want a building squared at 45 degrees in JOSM, for some reason, you can start with a closed way with 8 nodes, then use the circle tool. Or you can press 'a' twice, allowing you to add the next part of a way at 15 degree angle intervals. It's possible to create really nice geometric shapes

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

How about showing people how to map a building and square it right at the beginning of mapping? It’s all one motion for me. Just a suggestion! Suzan On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:52 PM, john whelan

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:52 PM, john whelan wrote: > Seeing 200 unsquared buildings by one mapper on a tile makes me think they > weren't using JOSM and the building-tool. I could be wrong, the same > mapper also left behind three area=yes squares that just happened to

Re: [HOT] Tagging highways in semi-urban areas in Malawi

I do a fair amount of mapping in Africa, and I would map those as highway=unclassified. Vehicles can drive roads 2 m or so in a 4 x 4 or a motorcycle-truck. Many wider roads there have huge ruts and they are drivable. Look on Youtube for examples of driving in that part of Africa and the kinds

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

I accept that buildings can be squared in iD. I'm at the rear of the horse if you like, I'm just looking at the results. I try to stay away from validating projects with buildings because it would appear that many of the maperthon mappers are not squaring their buildings. Seeing 200 unsquared

Re: [HOT] Squared buildings

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:09 PM, john whelan wrote: > If it absolutely essential fine but if not can we just accept some > slanting buildings when iD has been used? and if they're really essential > can we set the mappers up with a decent tool such as JOSM and the

[HOT] Squared buildings

How essential are they? They're fairly easy to square in JOSM with q or to drop in correctly with the building_tool plug in but I'm seeing perhaps 30% of buildings not squared on some projects and to be honest by the time I've inspected the image and sorted it out I could have mapped the building

Re: [HOT] Tagging highways in semi-urban areas in Malawi

If you look at the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway_Tag_Africa my understanding is if you can drive a 4x4 down it its at least a highway=unclassified and you'd be surprised where I can drive a 4x4. Definitely not a track, and I'm not quite sure that I agree with your definition of

Re: [HOT] 200 mappers need validators this Saturday

I've been validating on 1669 a project that is roads only, there was a second project was buildings only in the same area and I've just come across something like fifty double mapped buildings. In the normal event I'd just choose a mapper name of the two and zap them but these seem very mixed.

[HOT] Tagging highways in semi-urban areas in Malawi

Could you take a look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=17/-9.91903/33.89645 (part of http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1641 Malawi). I wouldn't describe the area as residential as the buildings are too scattered and there are cultivated fields in between. You will see there are some

Re: [HOT] 200 mappers need validators this Saturday

Hi John, The task is basically identical to the other Swaziland tasks (check e.g. 1576). Focus is mapping all buildings. So major challenges will probably be having straight corners and not having area=yes only polygons. ___ HOT mailing list

Re: [HOT] 200 mappers need validators this Saturday

What are you mapping? 1774 doesn't seem to be available to take a look at and I like to look at the project before deciding whether to validate or not. Thanks Cheerio John On 13 April 2016 at 14:16, joost schouppe wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you may already know,

Re: [HOT] 200 mappers need validators this Saturday

Minor update: I uploaded the instruction documents to wikisend (which allows account-less download): http://wikisend.com/download/728856/instructions.zip ___ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot

[HOT] 200 mappers need validators this Saturday

Hi, As some of you may already know, we're having quite the mapathon in Belgium this Saturday. At seven universities simultaneously, we'll be working on the upcoming buildings task for Swaziland, number 1774. Experienced mappers will give the mapping introduction, two of them are even HOT

Re: [HOT] 7M Earthquake in Myanmar

Here is a link to the USGS PAGER alert. On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Henning Bolz wrote: > Current Information from GFZ: > http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqinfo/event.php?from=rss=gfz2016hhgj > > F-E Region:

Re: [HOT] 7M Earthquake in Myanmar

Current Information from GFZ: http://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqinfo/event.php?from=rss=gfz2016hhgj   F-E Region: Myanmar-India Border Region Time: 2016-04-13 13:55:17.8 UTC Magnitude: 6.9 (Mw) Epicenter: 94.83°E  23.08°N Depth:

Re: [HOT] 7M Earthquake in Myanmar

Hi Pratik, Thank you for the heads-up; I’ll tune-in and spark-up the conversation with the HOT Activation working group. Anyone with more information (especially local) please feel free to email activat...@hotosm.org =Russ Russell Deffner

Re: [HOT] 7M Earthquake in Myanmar

Hi Pratik, We felt tremor here in Dhaka too and got panicked. So far, no damage reported. Take care Ahasan On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Pratik Gautam wrote: > Hi HOT, > > There was a 7M earthquake in Myanmar an hour ago. The shaking was felt > here in Kathmandu too.

[HOT] 7M Earthquake in Myanmar

Hi HOT, There was a 7M earthquake in Myanmar an hour ago. The shaking was felt here in Kathmandu too. Any updates on the situation in Myanmar and surrounding? Thanks -- *Pratik Gautam* || UI/UX Engineer, Full-stack Developer || Kathmandu Living Labs www.kathmandulivinglabs.org Twitter:

Re: [HOT] Mapping party in Barcelona

Hi: Sorry for replying late. I am in RDC now and yesterday evening internet wasn't working at all. It's a real pity that, unless a miracle, I won't be able to be in Barcelona. I have my return ticket for that date exactly (arriving next day), although it's possible that I have to stay here