[OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

It's something I've noticed in Africa so its probably not putting new mappers through a month's training first but many villages have been mapped but tagged as a single building with building=yes. They aren't grouped together but rural Africa doesn't have that many large foot print buildings so it

Re: [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

Hi John, The OSM Changeset Analyzer let's select bbox and option parameters including big building. To test if it provides too many positive answers. There could be an other option for very big buildings?? example with reason 34 Large buildings http://osmcha.mapbox.com/?bbox=9.272%2C-13.496%2C43

Re: [OSM-talk] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

Probably what I'm after is something that I can load up a chunk of map at a time say a quarter of an African country from the daily dump in JOSM then a selection based on building=yes with a certain minimum size would areasize work for that? Then I can use the todo list to check them one at a time

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

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

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

I'll need to play around but by using building followed by remove addr, name etc I can start to pick them out. What exactly is areasize measured in?How can I determine an areasize? Thanks John On 25 March 2017 at 20:05, Jo wrote: > Hi John, > > When I first saw your message, I looked into Over

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

JOSM comes with a measurement plugin :-) I drew a square somewhere in Africa with sides of about 100m and the area is about 1m2. For giggles, I then grabbed it and dropped it in Europe. Now the circumference is 255m, so one side 65m and the area became 4047 square meters. Cheers, and hurray

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] A tool for picking up settlements tagged as a single building?

areasize:300- works quite well. I picked up nine of them. You get a fair amount of large buildings mixed in but its doable with the todo list plugin. The maesurement tool helps as well. Thanks John On 26 March 2017 at 02:04, Jo wrote: > JOSM comes with a measurement plugin :-) > > I drew a s