Quality Assurance Tools script (qat_script) is a script for JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap Editor) that lets the user download OSM errors from some error detecting tool and review them one after another.

Video on how to use it (webm, 35.3MB)

• Errors download of currently observed area in JOSM, from different error detectors. The type of error can be selected from a menu or a toggle dialog, in the second case, multiple kinds of error can be downloaded at once.
• Progressive correction of downloaded errors by clicking on a button (next, next, next...).
• Automatic flag to server (''KeepRight'', ''Osmose'', ''Errori in OSM Italia Grp'', ''housenumbervalidator'') of false positive errors or information gathering for manual report (''OSM Inspector'') to the tool admin.
• Flag errors to be ignored. They will be stored on a local black-list file and not shown to the mapper again.
• Clickable markers for zooming/downloading a specific error. The level of the clicked marker must be activated.
• Multiple favourite zones can be set so that only errors within it will be downloaded. It can be a ractangle, a polygon drawn by hand or an administrative boundary with specific tags.
• A list of favourites checks can be created by selecting different checks belonging to different tools and find them again quickly.
• A local GPX file can be opened. Its waypoints will be used as positions that the user can visits in sequence to check for errors (more info on the Wiki).

• OSM Inspector by GEOFABRIK (only some types of errors)
• KeepRight by Harald Kleiner
• Osmose
• Errori in OSM Italia Grp
• housenumbervalidator by Gulp21
• Opening Hours Validator by Robin Schneider

For installation and usage see Quality Assurance Tools script page on OpenStreetMap Wiki.

Author: Simone F. [email protected]

License: GPLv2

To add a new QA tool read the file tools/README.md.

Note: I wrote a Python script, that can be run in JOSM thanks to JOSM Scripting plugin, rathar than a regular JOSM plugin because I just know Python. I would be happy if someone could create a Java plugin with these features.

Thanks to QA tools' authors and to the mappers who contributed by translations, testing, reporting bugs or suggesting new features (mcheck, Poppei82, operon, Xmypblu, Edward17 ...)
Their names are in CONTRIBUTORS and CHANGES files.

• KeepRight, Geofabrik and Osmose logos have been drawn in Inkscape and are based on the official logos.
• KeepRight checks icons are from KeepRight website.
• Osmose checks icons are from Osmose website.
• housenumebrvalidator icons are from housenumbervalidator
• qat_script logo.png build upon Openstreetmap_logo.svg (CC BY-SA 2.0) and Red_bug.svg by Mushii, Anomie (CC BY-SA 3.0)
• icons of buttons build upon Green_bug.svg by Mushii (CC BY-SA 3.0) and Red_bug.svg by Mushii, Anomie (CC BY-SA 3.0)
• favourites tool icon from candyadams (Public Domain)
• browser.png from Internet-web-browser.svg by The Tango! Desktop Project (PD)