[HOT] Bounding box not in iD Editor anymore

Fri Mar 3 22:15:31 UTC 2017

HI Mike,

First off, our apologies for this issue. I can not really imagine the
difficulty of running a mapathon with this issue going on.

It has been very difficult for us to resolve, but Nate, David, Pierre,
Ethan and myself have really been focused on it since the problem
appeared a few days ago. It took all of us (well, all of them, I was
mostly just panicking the whole time) to track down the issue and then
develop and test the fixes, which are a mix of Tasking Manager code
changes and configuration changes to multiple parts of our web server
software.

We have figured out the fixes earlier today, but it is, pretty
complicated, and time consuming to deploy on our production server and
we were not able to accomplish it today because David is travelling
this evening.

Honestly, it is just a symptom of the difficult nature of the problem
that you are now getting the purple task square again. We have made no
changes to our production server. Different browsers handle the
underlying problem (technically called a "mixed-content" issue)
differently. Aside from maybe a different browser, or different
browser version, or a different OS, I am not sure why you are getting
the purple square now.

Sometime tomorrow at the latest David and Nate will be able to roll
the fixes to our software and systems out to our main production
Tasking Manager server and then everyone should start getting the
purple task square in iD again.

Nate Smith, David Neudorfer, Pierre Giraud and Ethan Smith are among
the very best at what they do and we are lucky to have them working
and volunteering for HOT.

Again, our apologies for the problem, it has been our top priority to
get fixed this week.

Respectfully,
Blake

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We held a mapathon yesterday evening (5pm - 7pm US MST) with about 60 people
> in attendance.  None of the participants ever got the purple box  bounding
> box in iD, despite multiple attempts. I see it is now working.  Was there a
> problem yesterday that has subsequently been fixed?
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Rebecca Firth <rebecca.firth at hotosm.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Re-kindling this thread as another mapper and myself appear to be
>> experiencing the bounding box issue again (in Safari and Chrome) across a
>> few different tasks.
>>
>> Re-pasting the workaround instructions from before for anyone mapping
>> presently:
>>
>> Load task in iD
>> Return to Task on TM, go back to 'edit with' and select JOSM
>> You will get an error message about JOSM remote control, but it will give
>> you access to a section of the JOSM menu
>> From the section that reads "Tip: Download the following .gpx file 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.
>> 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...
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
>> <blake.girardot at hotosm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Nick!
>>>
>>> Your work around is great and working for people! Thank you very much!
>>>
>>> Pierre Giraud, just put a hotfix on the Tasking Manager to make your
>>> solution easier. This is live now.
>>>
>>> The link to the .gpx file now shows up on the iD Editor menu
>>> selection, you do not need to try josm and have it fail. Just go back
>>> to the page and dowload the .gpx file from the iD Editor selected
>>> dialog.
>>>
>>> A screenshot is attached to make it more clear.
>>>
>>> Thank you again Nick and Pierre!
>>>
>>> Respectfully,
>>> Blake
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Nick Allen <nick.allen.54 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > A quick but dirty workaround
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 1. Load task in iD
>>> >
>>> > 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
>>> > 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 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:
>>> >
>>> > 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. :)
>>> >
>>> > d.
>>> >
>>> > On 6 February 2017 at 08:09, Rebecca Firth <rebecca.firth at hotosm.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> 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.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> Rebecca
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> That does look like a bug!   I will try to get a fix merged in by
>>> >>> your
>>> >>> event Wednesday…
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Feb 5, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Orla McManus <OMcManus at esri-ireland.ie>
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi everyone,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 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.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks very much,
>>> >>> Orla
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
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>>> >>
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>> rebecca.firth at hotosm.org
>> @RebeccaFirthy
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