[HOT] HOT Tasking Manager Down Time Notice

Greetings, We need to take the HOT Tasking Manager offline for about 30 mins for some maintenance. We are planning for tomorrow, Tuesday evening at about 11:00 pm PDT (06:00 GMT, 2:00 am EDT) Please let me know directly if this time is terribly inconvenient for anyone. Cheers Blake --

Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

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.

Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

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

Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

A new twist I'm seeing at the moment is the building way is untagged but an extra node has been added and the node tagged building=yes not the way. Again the buildings are mapped but not usable without the right tagging. Cheerio John On 10 April 2017 at 18:31, Jo wrote: >

Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

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

Re: [HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

I have just come across a batch 13 and 16 march 2017 with two mappers mapping the same buildings. I have deleted some duplicates but I suspect there are more there. Cheerio John On 10 April 2017 at 17:50, john whelan wrote: > I've been looking at one section of Africa

[HOT] Mapping buildings something to think about

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

Re: [HOT] HOT Digest, Vol 86, Issue 7

Thank you Sandy for posting that question. Please do not add anything on OpenStreetMap itself as that node will appear as a random spot in the middle of nowhere and have no relevance. When you find a square has nothing to map what you do is go back to the Tasking Manager. Above the green