I have just explored the newly available Digitalglobe imagery around Malaysia, and was blown away with its coverage after all these years waiting for Bing. It was almost orgasmic! Not to mention the few that I worked with aligned almost exactly with my gps tracks, right in the middle of the road. Very happy, despite finding some sort of distortion (wavy terrace houses) with the imagery. Perhaps that could very well be caused by the unserviced surveyor’s theodolite during the housing area survey & marking stage.
Then it dawned on me..all those areas to be traced. That’s a seriously a huge amount of work to be handled by a handful of OSMers around here. Going to need a couple hours dedicated to tracing everyday whenever possible, starting with the important features first : streets in cities and towns, then following up with residential areas and the like.
Nevertheless, thank you Digitalglobe!
p/s anybody had trouble with JOSM (ver12039 here) acting up? At one point, text input doesn’t work anymore, but mouse actions work (pressing buttons & stuff). Just wondering although my Opensuse Leap 42.2 laptop isn’t that top notch either - btrfs, kde plasma & memory are possible issues. Maybe it is my laptop… anyways…. peace out.
Discussion
Comment from Piskvor on 12 June 2017 at 10:22
Did manage to somehow bork my Java apps in a similar way on Kubuntu 16.04, most notably JOSM; working around this in JOSM by saving the .joz session, closing JOSM and starting it again (which resolves the issue). I suspect it has something to do with modifier keys becoming “stuck” (I think I triggered it by dragging with Alt + window snapping in Plasma), but it didn’t worry me enough to investigate further (only happened a couple of times).
Comment from ff5722 on 13 June 2017 at 18:28
There’s a simpler way to fix the JOSM bug.
Just click the ‘Edit’ button for the Tag/Memberships box by mouse, then close the window by mouse again. Now all keyboard actions should work again.
Comment from kucai on 13 June 2017 at 23:09
thanks for the tip… will try that if it happens again.