[OSM-dev] thematic editing

[Mikel Maron]

Hi

In the next phase of Map Kibera, we're going to be focusing on collecting much more detailed information on particular themes ... health, education, water/sanitation, security. 
The map data in Kibera is *very* dense, and in order to make the process easier, am looking into at only editing one particular kind of thing at a time.

The process I'm doing now is 
* collect stats on tagging schemes [http://files.maps.jsintl.org/tags.html]
* looking at a sector, and decide which tags to edit ... for example health, I choose amenity=hospital and amenity=pharmacy

* download those via XAPI
* load all the downloaded OSM files into JOSM, and merge layers
* ok, that's what I want to edit!

I'd like to investigate getting this end result in JOSM, without the manual steps below
* Define the thematic layers in perferences (HEALTH is amenity=hospital, amenity=pharmacy, ROADS is highway=*, etc)
* Add a panel which toggles visibility on each of those thematic layers. By default, there would be a layer for everything else not caught by the defined themes
* ok, that's what I really want!

Not being a JOSM plugin expert ... does anyone have ideas on how to implement? Interested in collaborating on a plugin?

Thanks
Mikel

== Mikel Maron ==
+254(0)724899738 @mikel s:mikelmaron
http://mapkibera.org/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Haiti
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