[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Find missing roads

[Greg Morgan]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> Marc — you should be able to click on the ‘mark as fixed’ (lock) and ‘mark
> as invalid’ (exclamation mark) buttons in the missing roads panel after you
> make the missing roads layer active and select one or more tiles. Let me
> know if it doesn’t work for you.
>
> Martijn
>

I drew a blank at first.  I performed the activation.  I opened the
missing roads window but the lock was not enabled.  The key was to
click on the Scout layer first, then you could right click on the tile
to resolve the disposition in the missing roads window..  Unlike the
todo plugin, you will not have a list of tiles in the missing roads
window. Only the tile that you select in the Scout layer shows up.
You have to zoom way out to see the red does, then zoom in to find the
tiles.  I hope this information helps others.

Suggestions/comments:
1.) Examine OSM change sets to see if they resolve the tile but that
may be a bit of work.  The new road may not coincide with the Scout
GPS traces.
2.) Based on my initial misunderstanding and not closing the tiles, I
was wondering how often will you update the layer.  Again I was not
closing the tiles so I kept seeing the same open tiles thinking that
the refresh cycle was a long one.  As I stated, I did not understand
that I needed to close the tile.
3.) It would be helpful to put in a count of tiles in the red dot.  I
was surprised to see some large red dots contain only three tiles
while others contained many.  It did not feel like the intuitive dot
size matched the actual size of the effort.
4.) The detailed scout tile window, for lack of better words, would be
more useful, if I could use it to navigate from tile to tile verses
all the zooming.   Moreover, if this window had a list like the todo
plugin, it would enhance the navigation from tile to tile and thus the
fun flow.  Activation of the layer would fill the window.  The window
could be enhanced to add context menus to zoom to the next tile
similar to the todo plugin.  Another option is to add tab with this
functionality.  Here's the page for the todo plugin.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/TODO_list

Thanks for the plugin.  I found a major street segment that was
deleted.  In the same area the major street was marked as proposed.
Hence it looked like you'd have to drive miles out of your way to get
to the same destination that was actually nearby on a straight line
and at a high speed.

Regards,
Greg