On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">dave@sr71.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
> What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback -<br>
> there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is<br>
> actually there before you do.<br>
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</div>It would be really nice to add some JOSM layer functionality like this.<br>
I did a simple shp-to-osm, then mucked with JOSM's style files a bit to<br>
get it to show the background (new data) in pink and the foreground<br>
(existing OSM data) in a thick line. It makes isolating data that's<br>
badly lined up or non-existent in OSM easy to find, visually.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/portland/josm-ping.png" target="_blank">http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/portland/josm-ping.png</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this is a great first step towards a "merging/importing toolkit". A shapefile reading and rendering plugin for JOSM would be extremely nice to have and was the original intention of my shp-to-osm code.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd be happy to get the code started but would be excited to have people try it out and offer features.</div></div>