Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Paul Berry
Hi Bart, Glad it's of use but I can't take the credit. I learnt of this tool via JonS (not sure if he is on here) who, from what I can see, has pretty much addressed all the housing in Wakefield with it! Regards, *Paul* On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 19:37, BD

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread BD
Paul, The Terracer plugin is absolutely great. Reason for me to pose question on how to best map houses was solely because I drew some outlines and couldnt find a good way to split the objects.JOSM and terracer are doing the job much easier (see the village Im trying to map:

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread John Aldridge
On 27-Nov-18 11:50, Lester Caine wrote: On 27/11/2018 11:40, John Aldridge wrote: It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/11/2018 11:40, John Aldridge wrote: It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest to leave the building undivided and put

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread John Aldridge
It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I'm probably in a minority here, but since the mapper usually can't tell how the building is divided internally, it's more honest to leave the building undivided and put the housenumber etc. tags on nodes on the

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sainsbury selly oak

2018-11-27 Thread Andy Robinson
As a follow-up, it would be great to update the Dudley No.2 canal work across the Sainsbury site. They haven't raised all the money to complete but the developers have done a load already and this way needs updating to reflect progress: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/573536067 For info at

[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Sainsbury selly oak

2018-11-27 Thread Andy Robinson
If anyone is in Selly Oak can they update the new Sainsbury development & surrounds etc. Brian, I see you were there doing just that three weeks ago. The new store opened last week (my daughter says she got "lost" in there on Saturday :-) ). I assume the old store is now shut? And is the fuel

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Paul Berry
> It would be useful if there was a means of splitting buildings in the editor(s). I believe the Terracer plugin for JOSM could be your friend and guide here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Terracer I've not used it myself however. Regards, *Paul* On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Lester Caine
On 27/11/2018 08:47, Ed Loach wrote: 'We expect this "interpolation way" to be a temporary construct. In the long run, OSM will have every single house mapped as a building outline, and every single house will be tagged with its house number, so that interpolation ways will gradually vanish.

Re: [Talk-GB] How to map houses

2018-11-27 Thread Ed Loach
Dan wrote: > The more orthodox use is described here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#Using_interpolation Interesting. I'm clearly behind with wiki reading. My views on addr:interpolation are still based on