[HOT] Squared buildings

[Andrew Wiseman]

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?

I was just doing this, manually selecting non-square buildings, for an OSM
exercise in a class I teach, it was very time consuming.

Andrew

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps another question to ask then is is it too complex for new mappers
> to use when mapping buildings?
>
> 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.
>
> And we still haven't really come to a conclusion about whether having
> squared buildings matters.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> Paul Norman wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> We need to stop wrongly blaming iD, as it's not productive at figuring out
> what to change, and where.
>
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