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

2017-03-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-03-27 11:56 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier : > And while we're at it, the next most frequent building tagging mistake: > outlining the building on orbital imagery at roof level instead of base > level... Explaining that pictures are not always taken from the > vertical usually

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

2017-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:25:35 -0400 john whelan wrote: > > 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

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

2017-03-25 Thread john whelan
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

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

2017-03-25 Thread Pierre BĂ©land
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

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

2017-03-25 Thread john whelan
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