[HOT] Bounding box not in iD Editor anymore

Pete Masters pedrito1414 at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 6 12:49:06 UTC 2017


Thanks for keeping us updated on this Bryan. We have a mapping party in
London tomorrow with 100+ people. Happy to work around, but be good to know
if we don't need to ;)

P

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Orla McManus <OMcManus at esri-ireland.ie>
wrote:

> Hi Nick,
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> This works for me. A quick How to would be great!
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> Thanks very much,
>
> Orla
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> *From:* Nick Allen [mailto:nick.allen.54 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 06 February 2017 12:02
> *To:* Donal Hunt <donal.hunt at gmail.com>; Rebecca Firth <
> rebecca.firth at hotosm.org>
> *Cc:* Orla McManus <OMcManus at esri-ireland.ie>; osm-hot <
> hot at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Bounding box not in iD Editor anymore
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> Hi,
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> A quick but dirty workaround
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> 1. Load task in iD
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> 2. return to Task on TM, go back to 'edit with' and select JOSM
>
> 3. You will get an error message about JOSM remote control, but it will
> give you access to a section of the JOSM menu
>
> 4. From the section that reads "*Tip: Download the following .gpx file
> <http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2442/task/211.gpx> and load it in JOSM in
> order to see the current task boundary" * right click on *".gpx file" *and
> select *"Save link as" -* I put mine in my downloads folder.
>
> 4. Back to the iD *tab in your browser, and have file manager open as
> well - drag & drop the downloaded .gpx file onto the window of ID -- then
> wait...*
>
> 5. If all goes well you now have the square on your iD screen.* It took a
> while to load on my setup & a message about waiting or closing appeared -
> but it has loaded each time I've tried. *
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>
>
> *I'll try to put together a quick howto with images on LearnOSM and make
> it downloadable. Feedback as to whether this works for everyone would be
> appreciated in case I have to make amendments.*
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Nick
> (Tallguy)
>
> On 06/02/17 11:36, Donal Hunt wrote:
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> Can confirm. Have noticed that the bounding box doesn't always display.
> Usually closing the tab and relaunching 1-2 times results in it appearing.
>
> If logs / javascript console output is useful for tracking down the issue,
> let me know and I'll share. :)
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> d.
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> On 6 February 2017 at 08:09, Rebecca Firth <rebecca.firth at hotosm.org>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Just to add in on this one, there are quite a lot of mapathons going on
> over the next few days, including a group of students in Botswana mapping
> from today for the next two weeks.
>
>
>
> @Bryan - I had noticed over the past few months that sometimes the pink
> box didn't load immediately when you loaded a square, and you needed to
> wait quite a while or reload the square to see it. Not sure if others had
> seen the same.
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> Thanks,
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>
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> Rebecca
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> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com>
> wrote:
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> That does look like a bug!   I will try to get a fix merged in by your
> event Wednesday…
>
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> On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Orla McManus <OMcManus at esri-ireland.ie> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> I am unable to see the square bounding box in iD Editor when I lock and
> open a task/grid square e.g.http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2477#task/58.
> My understanding is that this bounding box enables the digitiser to ensure
> that they are working only in their grid square so that they can mark it as
> done in the Tasking Manager.
>
>
>
> Has this been removed with a recent update of iD Editor? Will this
> functionality be added again?
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> We have a mapathon organised for Wednesday with all beginners and it will
> be much more difficult to coordinate our progress without this bounding box
> in iD Editor.
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>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Orla
>
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