<div dir="ltr">There is the possibility of doing the following:<div><br></div><div>Search using:</div><div>Ctrl-f</div><div>building inview type:way nodes:-8</div><div><br></div><div>Now you have only buildings selected. (excluding buildings with more than 8 nodes, which are quite likely round buildings)</div><div><br></div><div>Add all of the buildings to the to do list.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Press</div><div>q</div><div><br></div><div>Now they're all rectangular.</div><div><br></div><div>Use zoom in the todo pane to jump to the first building.</div><div>Now press</div><div><br></div><div>]</div><div><br></div><div>to mark it done and jump to the next one.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a problem, use</div><div><br></div><div>w</div><div><br></div><div>to improve 'way accuracy'. It works very well for buildings too.</div><div><br></div><div>use</div><div><br></div><div>q</div><div><br></div><div>to square the building after moving the nodes to the corners.</div><div><br></div><div>You can also use</div><div><br></div><div>x</div><div><br></div><div>to extrude sides (on condition the buildings are rectangular)</div><div><br></div><div>When in extrude mode, you can double click on the side (wall) of the building to add nodes.</div><div><br></div><div>This method works very conveniently. If the buildings were drawn reasonably well, you end up pressing ]]]]]]]] working your way through the todo list.</div><div><br></div><div>If you accidentally squared/flattened a round building, use Edit/Purge to make JOSM forget about it. It will be removed from your local copy and the version that is online won't be touched. If you wanted to change something about it or you simply want to have your dataset complete, you can redownload the small area where it was, of course.</div><div><br></div><div>It all is still more labour intensive than it should be. It would be better to find a programmer who can fix iD to include a tool comparable to the buildings-tools (and while they're at it, they can include extrusion as well, really practical tools). Maybe we should propose this for next year's GSoC... I have no idea how hard it would be to accomplish this. But all the algorithms are already in JOSM. No idea if the licenses are compatible though. I don't have time to go look it up. I'm too busy squaring more buildings...</div><div><br></div><div>Polyglot</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-26 23:30 GMT+02:00 Steffen Lohrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steffen.lohrey@posteo.de" target="_blank">steffen.lohrey@posteo.de</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>This sounds dangerous, though, for
instances when buildings have non-rectangular corners (which in my
experience is often the case). Such a tool would be an invitation
to unwillingly mess up such buildings.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 26/04/2016 17:10, Andrew Wiseman wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe someone could build a tool in JOSM to be able
to select an area of buildings and square them all at once?
Right now you have to individually select them and that takes a
while, because the Q button won't work if a node is also
selected. Or maybe tweak the functionality of Q so it ignores
nodes?
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<div>I was just doing this, manually selecting non-square
buildings, for an OSM exercise in a class I teach, it was very
time consuming.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM, John
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Perhaps another
question to ask then is is it too complex for new mappers
to use when mapping buildings?<br>
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If we can accept odd shaped buildings that aren't quite
the right size then fine it is the right tool for the job,
but if we want fairly accurate building sizes and square
corners on squared buildings so population estimates can
be made then it appears from the results we see that it
requires more training and a higher standard of mapping
than new mappers are capable of with the current levels of
training. In other words it doesn't matter how good a
tool it is or what it is capable of if the new mappers
don't understand how to use it.<br>
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And we still haven't really come to a conclusion about
whether having squared buildings matters.<br>
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Cheerio John<span><br>
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<span>Paul Norman wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite">It's been stated a few times but
since there's still confusion: iD has a button to
square features. It has had this feature since before
it was released. <br>
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We need to stop wrongly blaming iD, as it's not
productive at figuring out what to change, and where.
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