[HOT] JOSM "mini tasking manager" Plugin

[Mike Thompson]

Andrew, Laurent,

Thanks for your feedback!

> Isn't the JOSM plugin MarkSeen https://github.com/risicle/josm-markseen
very similar to what you're thinking about, or at least useful for your
purposes?
I was unaware of the MarkSeen plugin.  I just tried it, and I think it
fills the need I was trying to address for the most part.  I see a slight
advantage to the "ToDo List" based solution, in that it would do the
panning/zooming and the marking as "done" with one click, but others may
not see that advantage, and in any event,  the incremental advantage may
not be worth the effort.

> My only quibble would be to not add a second layer with squares, as OSM
objects
This was just a quick way to get a "grid view" of the tasks.  Objects, even
objects without tags, show up as grey lines.

> and plugins can draw to the map view themselves.
If I go forward with this, I will investigate how difficult that is.  I
agree that this would be preferable to the OSM data layer.

> Also I don't remember how well the TODO list deals with objects in other
layers
It works with objects that are not in the current layer - which is very
handy.

> I would support being added directly to the TODO plugin as additional
functionality.
One other thing that should be changed in the TODO Plugin to make this work
is that the current version expands the bbox of the object being zoomed to
(one reason is that you never want to try to zoom to the bbox of a node),
this would have to be changed so that the rectangles that have been created
are zoomed to very close to exactly.

Mike

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:54 AM Andrew Buck <andrew.r.buck at gmail.com> wrote:

> That looks very handy, and is pretty much what I was thinking.  Thanks for
> pointing it out Laurent, am looking forward to trying it out.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020, 10:49 AM Laurent Savaete <laurent at where.tf> wrote:
>
>> Isn't the JOSM plugin MarkSeen https://github.com/risicle/josm-markseen
>> very similar to what you're thinking about, or at least useful for your
>> purposes?
>>
>>
>> On 23/09/2020 16:42, Andrew Buck wrote:
>>
>> Its a good idea, and something the TODO list plugin was originally
>> intended to do, in addition to its current functionality.  I am the one who
>> came up with the original idea for the plugin, but I am terrible with Java
>> so Gnonthgol coded it up based on my idea.
>>
>> I wanted to also add the "area coverage feature" like you are describing
>> as well as a "follow along way" function so you could follow along linear
>> features like roads/waterways at some fairly close in zoom level along a
>> long feature and it would track which parts you have examined.
>>
>> So I definitely think your idea has merit.  My only quibble would be to
>> not add a second layer with squares, as OSM objects.  You could do that,
>> but its a bit hacky. Also I don't remember how well the TODO list deals
>> with objects in other layers.  Fortunately, you don't have to add the
>> squares as objects anyway, since the todo list can track them internally
>> without them being OSM objects, and plugins can draw to the map view
>> themselves.  Think about things like the validator plugin (which draws non
>> osm object features to its own layer), or the fast draw plugin (which draws
>> non osm objects to the active map layer as temporary lines that then get
>> turned into proper OSM objects.
>>
>> So aside from the implementation details, I would say yes, this is
>> definitely a good idea and one I would support being added directly to the
>> TODO plugin as additional functionality.
>>
>> -AndrewBuck
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/23/20 9:44 AM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Dear fellow humanitarian mappers,
>>
>> When I am mapping or validating a task from the tasking manager, I often
>> find myself "panning and scanning", that is, zooming into a level at which
>> I can quickly tell if everything that appears in imagery is mapped, and
>> then systematically panning over the entire area of the task area (either
>> with the mouse, or <ctrl>+an arrow key).  This works until I find something
>> that needs to be mapped, or needs to be mapped differently, in which case I
>> zoom in, do the mapping... and forget where I was with the "pan and scan"
>> (keyboard shortcut "8" - zoom previous helps a little, but if multiple
>> zooms/pans of the map are performed it can be difficult to "get back to
>> where you were").
>>
>> I have come up with a prototype of a new plugin which might help.  It
>> divides the downloaded area in JOSM into a grid of smaller rectangles, and
>> adds the rectangles to the Todo List (also adds the rectangles to a new
>> data layer which is blocked from being uploaded from, or downloaded into).
>> As each of these rectangles is reviewed, you can "Mark" it in the Todo
>> List, and the Todo List will automatically zoom/pan the map to the next
>> rectangle.
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1) Would this be useful?
>> 2) Does this functionality already exist?
>> 3) Should I proceed with development?
>> 4) Should it be its own plugin, or should it be combined with other
>> functionality of use to this community (for example, I could move the
>> duplicate building script functionality into this plugin)?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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