Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Mann
That's pretty much entirely a relation-as-category, though, isn't it? I'm wondering whether there'd be a case for a very small number of high-value (in terms of processing speed) relations to be created automatically, available to data consumers in the normal way through the API, but _not_ shown

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Matt Williams
On 19 October 2012 11:11, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: That's pretty much entirely a relation-as-category, though, isn't it? I would argue not. Don't use relations as categories was devised to combat people doing things like adding all buildings designed by a particular

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 October 2012 10:40, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote: Either way, I'm very much into adding addressing information these days and I encourage more people to start adding it. +1 Yes indeed, being able to offer a database of addresses on buildings - albeit probably with quite

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-17 Thread Ed Loach
Matt wrote: I actually do that in reverse. I first trace all the houses in an area from Bing and then when I'm out surveying (using either a printed map or tablet) I'll use those outlines to match against reality. Either way, I'm very much into adding addressing information these days and

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-16 Thread Kevin Peat
On Oct 16, 2012 9:15 PM, Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com wrote: Hi Talk-GB, Sorry if I'm posting on the wrong list. ...I have a huge preference for Potlatch over JOSM... You can get therapy for that :] In JOSM you can press Q after drawing a building to cure the wobbles, not sure

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-16 Thread Richard Mann
Strangely enough, you press Q in Potlatch as well On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Kevin Peat k...@k3v.eu wrote: On Oct 16, 2012 9:15 PM, Adam Hoyle adam.li...@dotankstudios.com wrote: Hi Talk-GB, Sorry if I'm posting on the wrong list. ...I have a huge preference for Potlatch

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-16 Thread Ed Loach
Adam wrote: Can anyone give me any pointers about importing house shapes into OSM? They were probably traced by hand from Bing imagery rather than imported. I've added a few buildings over the years, but they end up being slightly wobbly, which is far from ideal. I have a huge preference