[josm-dev] Drawing adjacent areas
David Groom
reviews at pacific-rim.net
Fri Oct 12 18:23:08 BST 2007
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Brejc" <igor.brejc at gmail.com>
To: <josm-dev at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: [josm-dev] Drawing adjacent areas
> Hello,
>
> Currently I'm working on outlining forested and other natural areas
> around my hometown, but I'm having problems with the latest version of
> JOSM (368). As far as I can see, there is now only one tool for drawing
> nodes and connecting them into ways. There are two problems which I see:
> 1. How to create adjacent areas which share certain nodes? The only way
> I see is to draw an area, then break it into several ways, then
> duplicate those ways and connect them into two or more areas. This is
> pretty cumbersome work. I was hoping the new OSM API would help make
> this more user-friendly.
> 2. Drawing nodes close to the existing ways makes them snap to those
> ways even if you did not intend this to happen.
>
> As I can observe, the JOSM is now targeted squarely on drawing roads,
> support for areas has dimished (except for simple cases). I understand
> the need for simplification of OSM tools for newbies, but I still think
> JOSM should support more advanced tasks too.
>
> Cheers,
> Breki
>
Breki
I had the same thoughts as you when I tried the new version this morning,
but you can do want you want.
If you click the "draw node" tool near an existing node then it draws "a
segment" between that node and what was previously selected. It does not
add a new node, and so you can reuse existing nodes to from part of a new
way / area.
David
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