[HOT] Squared buildings

[Steffen Lohrey]

This sounds dangerous, though, for instances when buildings have 
non-rectangular corners (which in my experience is often the case). Such 
a tool would be an invitation to unwillingly mess up such buildings.

On 26/04/2016 17:10, Andrew Wiseman wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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