<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388411">Thanks everyone who made suggestions in this process, and previously, and to Bryan, Andrew, and Blake for helping triage the issues. Wanted to share where we've ended up. Lots in store to improve experience of iD for HOT, and OSM in general.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_390002">There's been lots of ideas on building editing. The biggest news is that a specialized building mode is nearing completion. Already deployed, building default tag (building=yes) has moved to the top of the list. </span>An installation of iD has been installed for HOT to start working on customizing presets. Get in touch with the Tech WG if you want to experiment, and think about next steps. Other ideas which have already been released: imagery offset by parameter, easy switching between imagery sources, and visual reminder to save after a large number of edits.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_390301">And plenty more is in the works, either in development or still being scoped out. GitHub issues are the best way to keep track of work in progress. Look out for announcements on this list, and elsewhere, when new versions of iD are released.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_390292">Thanks again!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span>Mikel</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388359"><span><br></span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388358"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388262">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388342"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388341" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388340"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388339"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, May 6, 2016 1:14 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM <blake.girardot@hotosm.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464827632715_388338"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Hi Everyone!<br><br>HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to<br>the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical<br>HOT and Missing Maps editing. As part of that process we would like to<br>get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.<br><br>A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:<br><br>* A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)<br>buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)<br><br>* Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps<br>projects (already in process, but not close to done)<br><br>* Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to<br>being done already)<br><br>But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways<br>that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping<br>projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our<br>projects.<br><br>Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new<br>mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.<br><br>Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw<br>other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a<br>suggestion for how to actually address those issues.<br><br>We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github<br>repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD<br>developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk<br>(not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan<br>Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different<br>directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of<br>needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions<br>and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is<br>the great tool it is.<br><br>The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM<br>editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure<br>we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use<br>to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify<br>those things and help get them implemented through feedback and<br>testing and maybe even some code contributions if anyone is interested<br>in doing that.<br><br>So as I said, please, if you have a few minutes to share some thoughts<br>on the iD editor it would be most appreciated.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Blake<br>----------------------------------------------------<br>Blake Girardot<br>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team<br>Vice President, HOT Board of Directors<br>skype: jblakegirardot<br>HOT Core Team Contact: <a ymailto="mailto:info@hotosm.org" href="mailto:info@hotosm.org">info@hotosm.org</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>