[josm-dev] New "add node" action

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 05:39:10 GMT 2008


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>    I added a method in the "edit" menu to add a new node by entering
> its lat/lon manually. It seems there is demand for this at least among
> users in Germany (no simple map clicking for a nation of engineers, it's
> just too imprecise!).

This is a very useful feature, when I've needed this in the past I've
resorted to manually hacking up a .osm file and loading it into JOSM.

> I always thought that we might one day have something like a "data view"
> where the data is presented not on a map but in a kind of spreadsheet.
> This would of course have been a cooler way to add the desired
> functionality - want a new node, just create a new row on the "nodes"
> sheet! But I wasn't in the mood for two days of coding so this is all we
> get.

What your new feature doesn't help me with is cases where I want to
place an existing node at a specific set of coordinates. Previously
I've done this by saving the .osm file, editing it manually with a
text editor and loading it back in again.

But what I really wanted was a way to edit lat/long in the same way I
edit key/value pairs via the "Properties for selected objects" menu. I
suspect this also won't take two days to implement, so if the code
fairy is interested ... :)




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