<div dir="ltr">Past Saturday I did a 'live' performance teaching JOSM to newbie mappers at 1 of the Belgian universities. Most of them were students of geography though.<div>Still, I think the major hurdle is getting Java installed, JOSM downloaded and started and then the initial setup (activate remote control, and install buildings-tools and utils-plugin2 plugins. I also like todo, mapillary, wikipedia, tag2link and openinghours).</div><div><br></div><div>At that point you show them how to use 's' and 'a' to add a node, maybe set some tags. Then add a way with a few nodes. Again tags.</div><div><br></div><div>Make a closed way and create a building, the arcane way, 5 clicks, tag, press 'q' to make rectangular.</div><div><br></div><div>Then 'b' for the buildings-tools to achieve it with 3 clicks and no need to add that tag, nor press 'q'. Add another parallel one with just 2 clicks.</div><div><br></div><div>That's were the fun begins, now you can show them 'x' to create extruded extensions. The building is still rectangular.</div><div><br></div><div>When creating buildings 'glued' to one another, it's possible to reuse the first node. (Keep the first building selected). The other node that's probably somewher in the middle of the wall, needs to be 'joined' to become part of that wall using either 'n' or 'j'. When the node is not exactly on that way, the behaviour of these 2 is different.</div><div><br></div><div>To improve way accuracy, you can use 'w'. Which is a splendid tool, once you get used to it.</div><div><br></div><div>Round buildings: draw a line with 2 nodes, use shift-O. then I usually remove 5 nodes and use 'o' to turn that potato into a circle again.</div><div><br></div><div>Then use 'd' to duplicate that building.</div><div><br></div><div>It's possible to use ctrl-alt-mousedrag to resize.</div><div>for duplicated rectangular buildings it's possible to use ctrl-shift-mousedrag to rotate them.</div><div><br></div><div><div>There you go, a crash course of JOSM in under 20 minutes. It may make sense to not tell them all this at once... but let them experiment and get used to it in between.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Polyglot</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-21 22:58 GMT+02:00 Mike Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miketho16@gmail.com" target="_blank">miketho16@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Jo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com" target="_blank">winfixit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In December I started to create some screencasts:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/polyglot_openstreetmap/profile/highlights" target="_blank">https://www.twitch.tv/polyglot_openstreetmap/profile/highlights</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Thanks, I will take a look at it.</div><div><br></div><div>I was more specifically interested in how successful people were in training brand new mappers how to use JOSM. I assume that you have had good success using these screencasts?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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