[HOT] OpenStreetMap data, good and bad

[john whelan]

JOSM on a USB stick needs to be set up.  It involves JOSM, JAVA and a
browser being installed on the USB stick with some software to make it all
stick together so JOSM can run from the USB stick and the remote control
made to work.  Perhaps Mike or Jo have the instructions lying around
somewhere, I seem to recall them being on the JOSM site.

The untagged ways aren't a big deal, it's just someone sitting at a
computer and adding tags, provided some else doesn't remove them first.
Duplicated ways JOSM can handle these in an automated way, they're just
indicators of data quality more than anything else.

Cheerio John

On 16 November 2016 at 05:00, Douglas Ssebaggala <
douglas.ssebaggala at hotosm.org> wrote:

> Thanks, great feedback,
>
>
> The untagged ways and duplicated nodes are a common scenario, it's great
> that there's such discoveries that can be made. Perhaps there could be a
> documentation on these recent common mistakes on the wiki, so that the
> local and new mappers can avoid and correct these.
>
> JOSM pre-loaded USB drives are handy for any mapathon, will share all this
> info with organisers of geoweek activities.
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 1:06 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I also have a small stack of USB drives that will run JOSM.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 15 November 2016 at 16:49, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> JOSM with the building tool plug in is seen as too complicated by many
>>>> mapathon organisers.
>>>>
>>> The building tool itself isn't too complicated, JOSM itself isn't even
>>> too complicated, it is getting it installed on everyone's machine.  They
>>> have to have Java 8, an OS that supports Java 8, download JOSM, install the
>>> building plugin, turn on remote control, restart JOSM, and accept the https
>>> cert for remote control. I have made some USB thumb drives pre loaded with
>>> Java, JOSM and the necessary plugins that solves all of these issues except
>>> for the OS. So far I have it working for Windows and Linux.  I think it
>>> will work on Mac, but just haven't gotten that far yet.  I plan on using
>>> these at a future mapathon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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