[OSM-talk] Sudden influx of bad HOTosm edits in West Bank

[john whelan]

Actually area=yes in Africa isn't that bad.  In JOSM I quite often come
across a settlement with thirty buildings drawn but not tagged and its a
lot faster to select the area, validate it then add tags to thirty
buildings at once rather than map thirty buildings.  You do need to check
them visually but it is still fairly quick and easy to do.

Cheerio John

On 30 October 2017 at 04:52, Michał Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time ago I suggested that the user should choose the preset and
> *then* draw a feature. Such reversal is logical, allows to disable
> incompatible geometry types (such as building=* on lines and points) and
> even opens the door for displaying a concise tip on how to draw the object
> based on preset chosen.
> From my experience - we have imported most of address points in Poland.
> People add POIs as names to existing address nodes without any
> shop/amenity/etc. tags. This is an obvious UX issue.
>
> Michał
>
> 30.10.2017 1:53 AM "Bryan Housel" <bryan at 7thposition.com> napisał(a):
>
>> Haha I promise I won’t be offended.  I welcome the criticism - this is
>> part of working on something that matters to a lot of people.
>>
>> Anyway, iD already does train the user in the walkthrough how to assign
>> tags, and iD does warn the user on the save screen if they are uploading
>> untagged features.
>>
>> So, what would you prefer iD do.. Just not upload untagged things?  We
>> could do this, and I don’t have any strong opinion one way or another.
>>
>> In the past, the thinking has been that it’s better to accept an
>> imperfect contribution than to turn away an imperfect contributor.   The
>> map is used for a lot of things these days - so maybe we should rethink
>> this as a community how we handle obviously bad edits.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:23 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it's amazing that after all these years of reporting it, that BUG in
>> iD still hasn't been resolved. But don't dare to complain, we might offend
>> Bryan.
>>
>> Polyglot
>>
>> 2017-10-29 23:47 GMT+01:00 Mark Wagner <mark+osm at carnildo.com>:
>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:15:18 +0200
>>> Safwat Halaby <swiftfast at gmx.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > - Adding closed ways with area=yes instead of building=yes, or with no
>>> > tags at all
>>>
>>> A closed way with "area=yes" is a *very* common newbie mistake with iD:
>>> the user traced an area, then forgot to tag it, or didn't realize they
>>> needed to apply additional tags.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark
>>>
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