[HOT] Squared buildings

[john whelan]

I accept that buildings can be squared in iD.  I'm at the rear of the horse
if you like, I'm just looking at the results.  I try to stay away from
validating projects with buildings because it would appear that many of the
maperthon mappers are not squaring their buildings.

Seeing 200 unsquared buildings by one mapper on a tile makes me think they
weren't using JOSM and the building-tool.  I could be wrong, the same
mapper also left behind three area=yes squares that just happened to be the
same as a building image.  Again it is perfectly possible to do this in
JOSM to draw such a shape and tag it area=yes, though why anyone with JOSM
and the building_tool plugin would do such a thing I can't imagine.

I'm asking a pragmatic question given that I'm seeing so many unsquared
buildings when validating is it essential they be squared?  and if so how
do we get squared buildings?

Cheerio John

On 13 April 2016 at 19:42, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:09 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If it absolutely essential fine but if not can we just accept some
>> slanting buildings when iD has been used?  and if they're really essential
>> can we set the mappers up with a decent tool such as JOSM and the building
>> tool plugin?
>
>
> John,
> You can square a building in iD. In my opinion it does a better job than
> JOSM. JOSM is limited to 90 degree angles, where iD can do 45 degree
> angles.
>
> Clifford
>
>
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