[OHM] date formats (was Re: Hidden Geo of NY's Gay Nightlife)

[SK53]

On 30 April 2015 at 14:04, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

>  On 4/30/15 7:45 AM, SK53 wrote:
>
>     Hi Richard,
>
>  I've always presumed that you would create different ways for
> surface=clay, surface=asphalt with appropriate time intervals. This gets
> potentially very messy for city streets which may go surface=dirt =>gravel
> =>compacted=>cobblestone=>asphalt along with changes in lighting, width,
> lanes etc. (Not to mention names). I deliberately avoided this type of
> issue when I looked at Derby Road as an example
> <http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/editing-historical-road-layouts.html>
> .
>
>  These changes are far more frequent than the actual geometry of the way.
>
>     given shared geometries, one could argue that we
> should share nodes between the ways. i usually avoid
> that in OSM but in this case it seems appropriate.
>
> JOSM can support selecting one of the the stacked ways,
> but it's still obnoxious. still, it might do for now.
>


Apparently it is supposed to, but doesnt work for me with a 2-button mouse.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Advanced_editing#Unglueing_and_untangling
...snip
richard

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