[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Extracting data from OSM (for use in JOSM or elsewhere)

2012-07-24 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Hi All, We have spoke about how to extract data from OSM in previous meetings. For example "How do I get just the allotments in Coventry?". I have written up a diary entry that might help make this clearer: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/RobJN/diary/17325 Regards, Rob __

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tasking Tool, Redaction Bot cleanup

2012-07-24 Thread rob . j . nickerson
Hi Brian, I would tend to agree with you. For HOT it may work well as most of that mapping is done from aerial imagery by people all over the world. However for organising local mapping efforts it doesn't work so well. One example is that you seem to have to divide up tasks by the map squar

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tasking Tool, Redaction Bot cleanup

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi Rob Not very user friendly - I see there are 26 tasks but there's none showing on the map to click on. Randomly clicking on the map gives me a tile as a task and prompts me that the data will appear in JOSM if it's already running - it doesn't. Re-reading your mail I see it says select a squar