I encountered a tile with many small (2 or 3 houses) areas in the hills of
Nepal marked as landuse=Residential. It is my understanding that this tag
should be used only for true "Settlements" of 20 or more houses?
I read somewhere that counting the number of "Residential" areas can be
used as a ro
See
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager#Potlatch_2_-_Adding_Grid_Square
A square I edited #1419 was also impacted by your duplicate building edits,
Eleanor?. A shame to do all that work with no result!
I noticed you used Potlatch-2 so perhaps the above link is the answer. I
ha
Re: Worth a read.
Where can I read it?
Tom
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Andrew Wiseman wrote:
> There's a good conversation happening now, with some good suggestions too
> -- one person mentioned that many of the tasks are for experienced mappers,
> so it's hard for newbies to contribute,
Today, whenever I load Bing imagery in JOSM I get a banner at the top with
the message:
"Aerial imagery might be misaligned. Please check its offset using GPS
tracks!"
Anyone know why this is happening now and never before?
I tried IRC but no joy. I even reinstalled JOSM, tried JOSM on a new
co
I agree John - JOSM should be encouraged for building mapping. I do not
think it deserves a difficult reputation.
An awesome and easy to use feature (besides the building tool of course) is
the filter: setting one to hide all building=* makes it really easy to flip
all buildings on/off. This makes
Though I am active, I do NOT show up on Pascal's new contributor's list
(user tmcd123, joined April 30). There must others missing as well?
Paul's suggestion "Maybe instructions should contain some images to show
clearly what is expected," is excellent. I still find it difficult to
decide what to
Simliar to John, but at 30m. I find using a consistent zoom level helps you
notice buildings since they will be a consistent size. Thanks John for the
. I had been using mouse with constant check to the latitude ;-)
For finding buildings, I find it really useful to have a filter building=*,
with H
You can go to a specific task via the URL. For example:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1018#task/3252
Tom (OSM user tmcd123)
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Danièle Garson
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know
>
> - how it is possible to locate a specific task
> when I know previously the
I have discovered that some geographical areas appear in more than one
project – with the *same instructions* (roads/buildings, etc). This is
resulting in some tasks being marked as Validated in one project, and yet
the same area in another project may not have this status.
Examples are http://tas
