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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<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 class=""><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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