[HOT] Northern Uganda Tracing Exercise / Sprint

[Martijn van Exel]

Agreed, as it is the tasks are rather large.

Also, I have trouble making out smaller buildings at the imagery
resolution. When in doubt, I will add a building outline.

Martijn

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sounds like we should add another zoom level to the task. What this would
> require is deleting the current tasks, and adding new ones. If there are no
> strong objections to this, will do this over the course of the day.
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Michael Krämer <ohrosm at gmail.com>
> *To:* hot at openstreetmap.org
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:35 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Northern Uganda Tracing Exercise / Sprint
>
> Just as I have been about to give some feedback, the two mails from Sam
> and Tim cam in. So I'm not the only one going through this.
>
> But first of all a huge thanks for the tracing guide. This is something I
> really appreciate as it helps a lot to come to some consistent tagging.
>
> On the other hand I also found the tasks rather large. I had one assigned
> by tasking manager which first looked like an easiy one: Mostly open
> spaces, only a few paths and some buildings. But after looking more closely
> I noticed that there were many huts, which take quite some time to trace.
>
> After I while I started using the following method in JOSM to trace the
> huts:
> - select a finished hut and copy the tags with ctrl-c
> - press a and draw a line across the hut
> - press shift-o to create the circle
> - press ctrl-shift-v to past tags
> Although this is rather fast, it still feels somewhat arduous looking at
> the number of huts. Doing buildings with the building_tools plugin is much
> faster. Unfortunatley I'm not familiar with Java, otherwise I would
> probably rather try to create a corresponding plugin myself.
>
> So I also decided to unlock my task again. Afterwards I noticed that the
> changset contained 169 ways - most of the new. I didn't even start to trace
> the landuse save even trees. So I also think the squares might be too
> large, I guess a quarter of the current size would give more manageable
> squares.
>
> Michael
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