Warning against misaligned imagery

[DJTerentjev@…]

Very often newbie to OSM start their contribution with moving old or create new objects according imagery. They just don't know imagery can be offset. Especially for mountainous areas imagery offset can be great. We need to inform them for first time they using imagery. Simple dialogue window. Please see attached image.

[DJTerentjev@…]

Offset warning

[akks]

This can be really useful for beginners. Adding is is also simple.

Maybe some picture in dialog can help (not absolutely necessary)
Is the link for "read more" already known?

[stoecker]

I don't see a big sense in this. This is stated in many places already. When people don't read, one more text wont help as well and it will only annoy the others.

[akks]

The sense is not big, but it exists. Maybe we need to show them some picture if they can not read?
Too many novices start from moving existing roads to "True Bing" :)

[Don-vip]

If added, it should at least not be displayed in expert mode :)

[akks]

Of course. And it has checkbox "not show this again" :)

Let us wait for pictures or links to place on this dialog.

[Dmitry <DJTerentjev@…>]

So far I can find only wiki page in Russian ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:Использование_аэрофотоснимков.
It have couple pictures. But let me translate it in English and I will look for better picture.

[akks]

We need some small picture for users (maybe some crossing "before" and "after" shift with icon of shifting tool) and international link in wiki.

[mekillot@…]

It's a very big problem that newibies align objects to bing, which has offset.
This fix will help at least to minimize this problem.

[Dmitry <DJTerentjev@…>]

This is international link: ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_Imagery

[akks]

Replying to Dmitry:

This is international link: ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_Imagery

Thank you!

Should we place some picture on dialog?
Something like following, but with better composition, idea and design:

and with much smaller filesize...

[Dmitry <DJTerentjev@…>]

akks,

For me any design will be OK. I'll happy with your design. Yesterday there was idea in irc: ​https://www2.dropbox.com/sh/p0ryog4igdaivdg/6XTjy-BL5s/Josm.png. I don't want upload this picture, because I could't reach its author FelisPimeja.

[akks]

Replying to Dmitry:

akks,

For me any design will be OK. I'll happy with your design. Yesterday there was idea in irc: ​https://www2.dropbox.com/sh/p0ryog4igdaivdg/6XTjy-BL5s/Josm.png. I don't want upload this picture, because I could't reach its author FelisPimeja.

FelisPimeja's design can be good, but we have no such panel components currently, so for now let us do simple dialog :) If we want to include the warning in Tested, we

• should hurry :)
• should ask permission
• should find some smaller descriptive picture or leave only text with link

[Dmitry <DJTerentjev@…>]

Whose permission we should ask? I make one version of screenshots: ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM_offset_images and post it on the forum. Hopefully we will have some good ideas.

[akks]

Replying to Dmitry:

Whose permission we should ask? I make one version of screenshots: ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM_offset_images and post it on the forum. Hopefully we will have some good ideas.

Permission from team to commit during stabilization phase when it will be ready. It would be polite :)

@team: How much size we can take for picture (50kb?, 20kb?). Or it is OK to include external web image in this case?

[stoecker]

• This is nothing for next tested, to late for this.
  • We have imagery there for years now, so one more month wont change situation significantly
• An image wastes too much space
• Why not simply (if it must be which I still not see) add a dialog linking to a description in online help?

[Zverikk]

Please check ​http://textual.ru/josm-nagging.jar
I've attached a patch, a new class and a black X image (it looks better with it).

Note that the message appears only once after an imagery layer has been added, and only in non-expert mode.

[Dmitry <DJTerentjev@…>]

Looks good. Thanks.

[akks]

Now when stable version is released we can add this too. There are two things to improve:

• Duplicate UrlLabel - Zveriks's simplfied variant based on JLabel looks better then standard UrlLabel based on JEditorPane. Was there any reason to use JEditorPane? I tried to do simplification in main core UrlLabel. It works but font size and vertical alignment differs (size can be increased).

• Adding panel (or mutliple panels?) on top on the map should probably be in MapFrame class. It can be useful for optional exposing additional MapMode settings, different messages, etc. What do you think?

[akks]

In 5050/josm:

UrlLabel class simplification by Zverik, better label layout in VersionInfoPanel (see #7450, #7326)

[akks]

I have included UrlLabel simplification, now the patch is shorter (works exactly like before).

[akks]

5053/josm fixes code style of 5050/josm (removed import .*). 3 plugins are also fixed to use new UrlLabel correctly.

[akks]

MapFrame (Main.map) methods for adding, removing and getting components on top of MapView were introduced in this patch.
These components (usually panels but I also tried JButton's) can be useful for interface simplification or enhancements, I think.

Zveriks's patch was changed a little to use these methods instead of "hack" (now Main.map.addTopPanel(p)) :-)

[akks]

A there more problems that needed to be solved before committing?

[akks]

In 5091/josm:

Warning against misaligned imagery for new users - see #7450.
Added addTopPanel function in MapFrame for other possible enhancements

[akks]

Please check the code and behaviour and close the ticket if all is OK.

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

Please check the code and behaviour and close the ticket if all is OK.

On a 1280x1024 screen resolution the close button (X) is hidden by the toggle dialogs.

[akks]

In 5119/josm:

minor fix: Imagery offset warning on small resolution screens, see #7450

[akks]

Did last change help?

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

Did last change help?

Yes it did, thanks.

[akks]

It was easy :)
Can we close the ticket now?

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

It was easy :)
Can we close the ticket now?

Seems to me that even applying did not help testing (probably many tester use expert mode and/or start with existing preferences).

Go ahead and close, I can reopen anytime if needed.

[akks]

So let's close this for now :)

[skyper]

Sorry, probably did not check good enough.

I still have one minor issue:

The link to the help page turns invisible after few second. It is still there (between message and close button) and it works if you click on its spot but it is invisible.

[akks]

Can not reproduce... Which OS and screen resolution are you using?

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

Can not reproduce... Which OS and screen resolution are you using?

GNU Debian wheezy (testing) with a 1024x768 resolution.

[akks]

Replying to skyper:

Replying to akks:

Can not reproduce... Which OS and screen resolution are you using?

GNU Debian wheezy (testing) with a 1024x768 resolution.

Can not catch the effect on RedHat 4... Can you please check if UrlLabels in AboutDialog and History dialog (links to user and changeset) vanish the same way?

[skyper]

Replying to akks:

Replying to skyper:

GNU Debian wheezy (testing) with a 1024x768 resolution.

Can not catch the effect on RedHat 4... Can you please check if UrlLabels in AboutDialog and History dialog (links to user and changeset) vanish the same way?

No not the same. With "About" it is hard to tell as I can not smaller the window, but with "History" it is definitly different. Have a look:

This is on a different pc than yesterday ! Gonna try it with ubuntu later.

[skyper]

screenshot

[skyper]

Stange if I smaller the main window it reappears in two lines and does not vanish anymore. A side affect is then that the toggle dialog right panels automatically smallers to only a small line.

It also seems to vanish faster on a faster machine.

[akks]

Too big font for Josm interface - on Windows it is smaller and all fits even for 800x600 :)
I'll try to change layout a little.

[akks]

In 5128/josm:

fix #7450: minor change - better layout tuning for small screens for imagery align nagging panel

[Don-vip]

Ticket #6229 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.