[josm-dev] Surveyor and LiveGPS - feedback

[Christof Dallermassl]

Hi!

I wrote the surveyor plugin (and made some modifications to Frederiks 
Livegps plugin), so I am probably the one to blame :-)

Gervase Markham schrieb:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>> 1) When you are surveying, you end up with two layers - a LiveGPS layer 
>> with all of the raw points, and a Surveyor layer with your annotations. 
>> This surveyor layer has points, plus the text and icons associated with 
>> those points.
>>
>> It appears to be impossible to save this layer with the text intact, or 
>> to convert it into any sort of saveable layer (e.g. a data layer). You 
>> can save the points, but that isn't much help. This layer contains a lot 
>> of extremely important information.
> 
> I now find that if you have turned on the LiveGps/surveyor autosave 
> (which I had), the text associated with each added point is saved as a 
> <wpt> in the .gpx file, and can be viewed again by reloading that file. 
> This is great, but it should still be possible to save this layer using 
> "Save As..."

You are right. But to add the functionality to save waypoints the josm 
core code needs to be changed and I did not want to mess around there. 
But I guess, you are very welcome if you want to provide some code :-)

Additionally I prefer to have the waypoints (wpt) and the raw data in 
one file (if possible). So one can load them together again and do not 
need to find the matching files with points and raw data.

I am sorry that you had troubles on surveying. As I knew the auto-save 
feature I never had the problem. I will add your patch as soon as 
possible (probably tonight), so reconnection should be fixed.

Christof

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Christof Dallermassl
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