[josm-dev] Drawing adjacent areas

[Igor Brejc]

David Groom wrote:
> ----- 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
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>> Hello,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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> Breki
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> I had the same thoughts as you when I tried the new version this morning, 
> but you can do want you want.
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> 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.
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> David
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David,

I'll try this, thanks for the info. Have you perhaps found a way to turn 
off snapping to existing ways when you don't want it? Sometimes it is 
difficult to draw an area if a road is already present nearby.

Breki