Did you restart JOSM after enabling remote control? Did you use the https
option? (It should work either way). Do you have additional firewalling
software or an Antivirus suite that includes a firewall?
Jo
2017-04-30 0:26 GMT+02:00 Bill :
> I have been mapping with iD for a week.
>
>
se Ctrl-d to duplicate to the other huts
you can use Ctrl-Alt-left mouse button drag to rescale as appropriate.
Cheers,
Jo
2017-04-11 20:12 GMT+02:00 Philipp Schultz :
> Hi again
>
> I am not a specialist of Africa - I only traveled in the magreb - but i
> imagine that this hut ht
Maybe we're explaining it to them wrong, somehow.
It's more likely that it's too easy to do it wrong though. These issues
keep coming back and haunt us.
Anyway, I went in and tried it myself, once more.
'3' (to draw an area, I like keyboard shortcuts)
4 mouse clicks + enter or 5 mouse clicks, de
us 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 :
> Hi John,
>
> I feel your pain. While demoing JOSM to a potential GSoC candidate I
> downloaded a building block in Mozambique. Almost
gging 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 th
I just wanted to mention I'm going to organize a followup meetup at one of
the universities that participated in that Belgian Mapathon on the 26th of
April. My intention is to explain mapping with JOSM, of course, but if
there are a few people that participated, who are coming back, I'll explain
wh
Your message really surprises me. MapSwipe is an app that was created by
MSF, to help save HOT's mappers time, so they can focus on mapping. I think
that's an interesting discussion thread. Not sure about the others, but the
way to read mailing lists is to look at the topics that interest you and
i
using Mapswipe to deduplicate
>> mapping efforts through the tasking manager
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/pjstewart1984/diary/40710
>>
>> Disastermappers write here about how to access MapSwipe data and how they
>> process it https://disastermappers.wordpress
It's definitely useful to save actual mapper's time. For validation I'm not
sure it would be a big help.
Op 26 mrt. 2017 3:12 p.m. schreef "john whelan" :
> Would we be better ahead by using something like mapswipe to validate? If
> a tile is OK there is no need to add to the map from the tool.
gt;
> Thanks John
>
> On 25 March 2017 at 20:05, Jo wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> When I first saw your message, I looked into Overpass API, but no luck.
>> In JOSM areasize would definitely work. You'll have to find a sweetspot
>> around 100-
>
Hi John,
When I first saw your message, I looked into Overpass API, but no luck. In
JOSM areasize would definitely work. You'll have to find a sweetspot around
100-
so
building areasize:100-
or possibly 500 or 1000.
Polyglot
2017-03-25 19:34 GMT+01:00 john whelan :
> Probably what I'm after
cut. Thanks, that's very useful!
>
> Also Iove the idea of having a scaling tool in iD - would second that
> suggestion.
> On the other hand I don't have much practical use for the new mirroring
> tools. Maybe others have the same priorities?
>
>
>
> Am 20.03.17 u
In JOSM you can use the 'Improve way accuracy' tool (w) to conveniently
drag those corners followed by 'q' to square the building. That is somewhat
less time consuming than redrawing (and it keeps the history). A validator
can choose to either do this, or to invalidate the task. It's probably a
goo
If you use 'w' in JOSM there is hardly ever a need to delete user's
contributions. It's really easy to drag the corners where they need to be,
then finish of with 'q' to square the building.
Same goes for highways (Ctrl-left mouse button to add nodes where needed).
Truly nifty that improve way acc
It also depends on what the exact goal is. Is it intended for one by one
copy/paste. Or could you go to an area with Overpass Turbo and then run a
query on everything in view, producing a list you can import in a
spreadsheet?
Jo
2016-12-13 14:23 GMT+01:00 john whelan :
> Thanks Jo, I th
Hi John,
You could use Overpass API. It can give you center points for areas (both
way and multipolygon). You could use those coordinates.
You can extract this information as CSV. Then read that into a spreadsheet
or Pandas or R or your own PostGIS table, of course.
Polyglot
2016-12-13 0:49 G
Since it's so easy to create square buildings (in JOSM, that is), it should
be unacceptable to not square them. (If they are rectangular, of course).
We want to map what's there in reality, as closely as practically feasible.
Polyglot
2016-10-13 12:09 GMT+02:00 Joseph Reeves :
> Hi all,
>
> "Hav
Unfortunately there will constantly be new crises. So we'll always be 'in
the middle of a crisis'.
Polyglot
2016-10-13 8:29 GMT+02:00 Robert Banick :
> Hi all,
>
> HOT is clearly one of, if not the, most successful crowdsourcing projects
> for humanitarian response in the world. Success means no
We will have a meeting this afternoon (European time) where we'll be
reviewing them.
Polyglot
2016-07-06 8:21 GMT+02:00 Milo van der Linden :
> I submitted an abstract for the HOT summit more then a week ago. Can
> someone tell me when these will be judged and responded?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mi
they ask about the local community. They
might even insist that the whole import is performed or at least followed
up by local people who are familiar with the territory.
Jo
2016-06-18 13:12 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
> The traditional way is annouce a gathering for coffee then whichever tw
actuallly just hitting the validator button is not enough, you need to make
sure nothing is selected.
Polyglot
2016-06-17 14:30 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
> You've got the tile in JOSM anyway so if you hit the validate button
> before uploading you'll see all the crossing ways etc that other mapper
I already looked at this page before. As I'm poor, relative to my country's
standards, I don't have a need for an expensive credit card.
If you like I'll come and help out. I live nearby, otherwise I'll just have
to pass on it and make myself useful in other ways.
Polyglot
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What I usually use is highway=unclassified / surface=unpaved.
Polyglot
2016-06-15 19:14 GMT+02:00 Paul Norman :
> On 6/15/2016 3:22 AM, Michael wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here the word 'unclassified' is pretty misleading as well. For some
>> reason 'highway=unclassified' does not mean that the road i
History is retained after splitting a task. That is definitely an
improvement.
The url of the original task is still invalid though:
http://tasks.dev.hotosm.org/project/848#task/87
I'm not sure what is a sensible way to solve that, but it means that it's
not possible to use those urls to refer to
Another important aspect is keeping that data current and up-to-date. Are
they prepared to (learn how to) do that part themselves? Would they
consider to start using OpenStreetMap as the repository of their data?
Polyglot
2016-05-24 15:22 GMT+02:00 Jo :
>
> If I can have a look at the d
If I can have a look at the data, I can look into the technical side. Are
they prepared to release the data without restrictions?
Polyglot
Op 24-mei-2016 3:03 PM schreef "Kate Chapman" :
Hi All,
I'm talking to an organization that has collected address and street data
for Sekondi-Takoradi in Gha
les so even quite small USB sticks should work.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 14 May 2016 at 16:55, Jo wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Did you do F12 and enable Remote Control in the setttings?
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> 2016-05-14 22:52 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
>&g
Hi John,
Did you do F12 and enable Remote Control in the setttings?
Jo
2016-05-14 22:52 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
> Which browser did you use? The browser works fine, JOSM works fine it
> just when you select the tile in the browser it doesn't get passed through
> to JOSM.
&g
Hi John,
I did create such sticks several months ago and I didn't have that issue.
It must be network/firewall related.
Jo
2016-05-14 21:28 GMT+02:00 john whelan :
> I picked up PortableApps from the link and installed it with portable
> Firefox and Jportable. JOSM runs fine but th
patahon, who proposes to install and set up JOSM on their own
computers. So they don't have to take the hurdle of figuring it out for
themselves. Not that it's all that hard, but it's time consuming if it
needs to be done on many computers with varying OSes.
Polyglot
2016-05
streaming is
automatic, which means that I'm doing it more often, than I would be, if I
had to record, then encode, then upload.
Jo
2016-05-14 19:06 GMT+02:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :
> Hi Jo,
>
> Thanks for the videos. Why Twitch? Will be very nice and great on the side
> of some of
Hi,
Here you can find instructions for install portabableApps on a USB stick:
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/java_portable
Then it's not necessary to reboot your computer into Linux. Nor is it
necessary to have administrator rights to run Java applications.
Regarding the use of JOSM for
way, trying
to avoid duplicating information.
Jo
Op 1-mei-2016 2:51 PM schreef "Darya Golovko" :
Hi Jo,
It was actually nice talking to the people, so it was definitely a good
idea to go. I can't say that I got detailed recommendations on the public
transport, but I got some communi
There is the possibility of doing the following:
Search using:
Ctrl-f
building inview type:way nodes:-8
Now you have only buildings selected. (excluding buildings with more than 8
nodes, which are quite likely round buildings)
Add all of the buildings to the to do list.
Press
q
Now they're all
You could also fetch the history of the object with Ctrl-h, then click
through on the changeset and leave a changeset comment.
Jo
2016-04-24 22:24 GMT+02:00 Michael Heißmeier :
> Hi,
>
> today I've been validating a lot on project 1836 and found the quality of
> mapping astoni
in that same authors panel, you can double click on somebody's name to
select all their edits. At that point it's possible to add them to the todo
list, if needed.
Polyglot
2016-04-24 21:40 GMT+02:00 Blake Girardot :
> Hi John,
>
> I would humbly disagree. With the "Authors" panel open in JOSM,
it's possible to use
ctrl-shift-mousedrag to rotate them.
There you go, a crash course of JOSM in under 20 minutes. It may make sense
to not tell them all this at once... but let them experiment and get used
to it in between.
Polyglot
2016-04-21 22:58 GMT+02:00 Mike Thompson :
>
>
g the
highlights... Then I'll have another look at them. Or if you have
suggestions for improving them. I can easily create new ones.
I also have a series that makes use of Mapillary pictures in Kyrgyzstan.
Polyglot
2016-04-21 22:22 GMT+02:00 Mike Thompson :
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at
Organising Mapathons to help in Ecuador and Japan is laudable, but the task
at hand poses problems for somebody with a few years of experience like
myself, so how do we expect total beginners to be able to do a good job?
The first part of the solution: stop trying to sell the use of iD as "a
good
is the url with ULG added:
http://www.missingmaps.org/leaderboards/#/belgiumunis,ulb,vub,ugent,kul,unamur,ucl,ulg
Polyglot
2016-04-18 17:23 GMT+02:00 Jo :
> It's rather worthless this way anyway, but Liège doesn't seem to be
> present in the comparison.
>
> Jo
>
> 201
It's rather worthless this way anyway, but Liège doesn't seem to be present
in the comparison.
Jo
2016-04-18 17:00 GMT+02:00 joost schouppe :
> And it's back. But either something went terribly wrong, or our mappers
> only added the extra tags in a good 10% of cha
And Jo hasn't been validating all that much building related tasks lately.
He only started again about a day ago, due to a Mapathon happening nearby
to him...
Jo got distracted validating schools in Uganda and doing interesting stuff
with Python to add those to Wikidata as well. Or cre
move to the next one. This makes it relatively efficient without
losing accuracy. It definitely beats ]q]q]q]q]q] :-)
Then search again using:
building inview nodes:5-
to review the ones with more nodes.
building inview nodes:-9
also works to exclude round buildings.
Jo
2016-04-15 1:23 GMT+02
It would be far better to add a tool comparable to buildings-tools plugin
to iD. We should have proposed that for GSoC2016... well, maybe next year.
Jo
2016-04-14 9:47 GMT+02:00 Suzan Reed :
> JOSM is the tool to use, I agree. However I did become somewhat of an iD
> power user and so
lization? That would be part of a
> validation workflow and could even be automated.
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:48 AM Jo wrote:
>
>> 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
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 u
worked quite
intensively on that 24000 Uganda Schools Import, which is now more or less
concluded. Well, he set up the project and I validated the lot.
I could also say a thing or two about that project and about the Python
script I created which creates Wikidata items from within JOSM.
Jo
2016-04
the quality is reasonable. I guess it's normal that we can't find
some schools on the imagery that is a few years old by now.
Jo
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Yesterday I created a formula to make it easy to add a node automatically
with the right tags in JOSM. This made the spreadsheet very slow though, so
I removed them again. You can copy/paste them to the rows you are going to
work with. I added a comment in the header column:
Please copy this formu
Hi, to make things easier I added another column to that spreadsheet. It
contains a formula and with a bit of hocus pocus this becomes a clickable
link.
Now if you have JOSM running AND remote control is enabled AND an edit
layer is open, a node will appear near a school in Tanzania, like magic.
T
If you'd need to relearn iD, invest some time in learning JOSM, you'll be
glad you did. It's true that it is somewhat more userfriendly to not use
British road classifications, but now it becomes harder to make the switch
to JOSM, that contributors who become more involved with OSM will
invariably
I try very hard not to invalidate, but if the mapper pressed Done, where he
or she should have pressed Unlock, I don't hesitate to do so. I do try to
write encouraging remarks. I also try to show them how JOSM is a lot better
adapted to getting actual work done. Usually be means of screencasts of
w
If such a volunteer becomes more confident after a while, they shouldn't
hesitate to actually validate the task, if all was mapped well and they
didn't have to add/change much.
When I look at finished tiles, I start with the intention to validate it.
If I have to do too much work on it, I will som
The trick is to find all the buildings with:
inview building nodes:-11
All buildings in view with less than 11 nodes. (To exclude round ones.
Mostly useful in Africa)
Add them to the todo list (you'll need the todo list plugin)
zoom in on the first building.
Ctrl-Shif-E to select all the connect
Hi Martin,
If you get serious about mapping, don't postpone the 'upgrade' to JOSM.
I'm creating some screencasts on Twitch. Unfortunately they are not very
organised or structured yet: I'm still in the process of trying to figure
out what works and what doesn't for these screencasts.
http://www.
Felix,
That's really great to hear. Especially after things looked a bit gloom on
Friday.
A bit thank you to all involved!
Polyglot
2016-02-02 19:44 GMT+01:00 Felix Delattre :
> Wuuhuuu... we made it! Managua has it's bus map.
>
> Today we distributed the first printed maps to the people:
> ht
It's indeed odd that when tasks are split, they stop to exist... and
continue 'life' as 4 or 16 new task numbers. It would be good to get a
message about this spawning, for the sake of 'history'.
Polyglot
2016-02-01 19:04 GMT+01:00 Mike Thompson :
> I am getting messages through the tasking mana
FOSDEM was great, but I hope the sessions that interested me where video
taped. I only got to see Blake's presentation, which was splendid.
The rest of the time I was helping out at the HOT stand. Next year we
should ask for 2 tables and preferably in the K building... It was cold in
the H buildin
I usually simply don't let the list update, so at least my validation work
doesn't show up yet, but I agree it's a problem.
What I usually do, to cherry pick the new users, is to go to the stats and
look for new names. This only works when you're validating for a limited
amount of projects.
I lea
I live near to Brussels, so me 3!
2016-01-26 15:37 GMT+01:00 Katja Ulbert :
> Hi Mikel,
>
> you can count me in for the organisation of a HOT summit in Brussels or
> elsewhere :-)
>
> Best
>
> Katja
>
>
> On 26-Jan-16 15:00, Mikel Maron wrote:
>
> There's a lot of interest in holding another HOT
buildings in that stage. I'm also automating the creation of
wikidata entries and linking from OSM to WD and back.
I don't promise that I'll do that for all 24000 of them though.
Cheers,
Jo
2016-01-22 20:39 GMT+01:00 Rafael Avila Coya :
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hi,
To help with validation and also to make people aware of those note:...
tags, I created a MapCSS style. It's in the list of Mappaint styles of
JOSM. I named it Schools.
It works in countries with more "regular" ways of addressing too.
Cheers,
Jo
2016-01-22 8:34 GMT+0
nd since it's harder to figure out which buildings belong to
the school for those from aerial imagery alone. I think that's worthy of a
note in the instructions.
Kind regards,
Jo
2016-01-22 0:06 GMT+01:00 Rafael Avila Coya :
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
The buildings will have 2 sides parallel and 2 sides perpendicular to the
imaginary line passing through those 2 nodes you selected.
If you select a building which is not with 90 degree corners everywhere,
you will find there is more than one way/direction in which the new
building can be drawn.
I created a new one, that stays more on topic, with sound this time.
http://www.twitch.tv/polyglot_openstreetmap/v/35769115
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Indeed, you need to want to engage with the new mappers. What makes this
worthwhile is that this is highly appreciated by them. It takes time and
effort, but the increased productivity and the fact that validation
actually becomes easier when you don't have to fix everything, because it's
mapped co
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Polyglot/diary/37764
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Hi,
I became more seriously involved with HOT a good month ago, as somebody was
organising a mapathon and needed some extra help.
Since I already have some experience with OSM and since I saw an obvious
need for it, I decided validation might be a good match for me.
I agree that it's a bit of a
ll be the first time I'll try to
add sound...
You can also see previous recordings at a later time.
Jo
2015-12-17 23:16 GMT+01:00 Blake Girardot :
> Hi Piaco,
>
> It didn't take long to review because your mapping is great. Your mapping
> is exactly what we do :)
>
>
The name should actually be mapped on a node near the center of the
settlement, so I think it's better not to put names on landuse=residential.
Polyglot
2015-12-17 14:28 GMT+01:00 Matteo Zaffonato :
> Il 17/12/2015 14:21, john whelan ha scritto:
>
> We're mapping lots of these but I have a feeli
The preset is a simple text file (Ok, XML). You download it, then you us
F12, Tagging Presets to point JOSM to it. Now it's a new entry under
Presets in the menu. That's not entirely practical yet.
You can do right mouse button on the task bar though, and add buttons for
the different presets.
On
Something that baffles me about the TM is that when a task is split, the
original tile seems to disappear from existence, even though people could
still have a reference to it, they will get a not found message and they
can't read the comments anymore.
As a long time OSM contritbutor, I started do
That is a great idea! For more complicated tag combinations, I also use
Ctrl-c / Ctrl-Shift-V to transfer them from one object to another. But it's
not possible to keep more than one combination at a time in the clipboard,
so presets which don't require confirmation that are accessible from the
too
Hi Samuel,
is_in has been deprecated several years ago. The Overpass API has a better
solution:
area[name="Burkina Faso"]->.b;
(
relation(area.b)["admin_level"];
way(r);
);
out body;
>;
out skel qt;
If you want to use the result in JOSM:
You can select File/Download from Overpass directly,
Hi,
I was looking at some tasks in Haïti which can be performed using Mapillary
images. Over the summer a plugin was developed for JOSM during a GSoC
project, so maybe it's possible to mention this. Now iD is mentioned, but
that's a bit contradictory for some tasks which start out by saying JOSM i
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