[HOT] Squared buildings

[Suzan Reed]

How about showing people how to map a building and square it right at the beginning of mapping? It’s all one motion for me. 

Just a suggestion! 

Suzan 


On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:52 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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?

From my experience with hosting Missing Maps and HOT mapathons many of the mappers are first time contributors. We try to get them mapping as quickly as possible. After a period of time we introduce new techniques, such as squaring buildings and copy paste. The behavior you observed may be the lack of training. If its possible to find out if the mapper attended an event and if so who organized it to give gentle constructive feedback to the host. (Hopefully it wasn't one of ours)

Clifford


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