For a first time user, his edit wasn't actually _that_ bad. The shape of the buildings was far better than mine, so I kept that.
We have to seize the opportunity on the OpenData conference in Namur to get fresh blood in and warn about ID editor, promoting JOSM. I only used the reverter plugin less than 5 times in all those years, this one wasn't one of them. I tried to keep the good work, correcting the bad. I always try to invite these users to the mailing list and point them to the documentation on housenumbers Sander wrote. Glenn On 14-01-15 19:03, Jo wrote: > This mapper just registered today. Even though he managed to 'destroy' > some data during his first attempts at editing the map, I believe our > first priority should be to welcome him in our midst. The second step is > show him the light and explain what JOSM is and how it's far superior to > iD, LOL. > > If the data is terribly disrupted, it's relatively easy to revert the > edit for really serious cases, especially when no further edits have > occurred yet. > > Losing/alienating 'fresh mapper blood' is a much bigger problem. So it's > important we're as constructive as possible. It's a community project > and we desperately need that community to grow bigger. > > Cheers, > > Jo > > 2015-01-14 18:14 GMT+01:00 Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be > <mailto:gl...@byte-consult.be>>: > > On 14-01-15 18:04, Sander Deryckere wrote: > > It's quite likely he doesn't know what a multipolygon is. iD creates > > those for the user when they "merge" areas. That merging is meant to > > make holes in areas. > > Ok, great to know this, tx I didn't realise. ID also doesn't seem to > validate as the original buildings (parts of) where still there it > seems. > > > > > So I guess he merges some form with another form, and iD creates a > > multipolygon without the user knowing it. > > > > The realigning of course is his fault, and I hope in the near future we > > can just point them to use MapBox (which will use Agiv imagery). Since > > copy-pasting a TMS url to iD for every session is a bit tedious. > > Indeed, I think the biggest problem is realising there is a better > source and also skills to understand that some sat photo's aren't > looking at the earth in a 90 degree angle. I'm sure you'll find houses > like that from my hand as well before AGIV came along. > > > > > (btw, I reached 95% completeness on my town, 8840, the remaining ~165 > > are mostly unclear addresses and some plain mistakes that need to be > > reported to Agiv, so that will be a slow 5%. Most of the reports I made > > were solved rather quickly so far.) > > > I pretty much completed all I could, the remaining issues are usually > borderline problems, only a few mistakes or a place where the node is > way off (usually centralised in the middle of the property) but where > the house is way off. I never use the meters option in the tool, I keep > the default behavior there. > > But like this person made a second changeset where he popped number 110 > into a row clearly in the 80's. It's way off, he mentions the source > which is the website of Century 21 and funny enough, that site has got > the number wrong, hence they introduce errors. > > I wish there was a way to let a mapper know the area has been > housenumbered against trusty sources. > > Glenn > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-be@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > -- "Everything is going to be 200 OK." _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
