[josm-dev] Relation support in JOSM

[Shaun McDonald]

On 18 May 2008, at 08:48, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Am I right in thinking that you cannot create, edit or remove
>> relations in JOSM. As far as I can see, you can tell that a way is a
>> member of some relation and that's it.
>
> You can create, edit, and remove relations. There are two ways to do
> this. There's a dedicated relation pane that you can display on the
> right hand side (by using the button on the left with the gear icon);
> there you should be able to select existing relations for editing, to
> delete them and to create new ones.
>

Well hidden, no wonder I didn't see it. Can we have the button action  
in one of the menus somewhere, so that we can see the work relation,  
without having to hover over each icon waiting for the tooltip to come  
up?e

> Also, when a way is a member of a relation and this is shown in the
> property dialog, double-clicking on that entry should open up the
> relation editor as well!
>

I knew about the property dialog. Didn't know about the double  
clicking bit. (Finally trying to learn relations.)

> Once you have the relation edit window open, you can change the tags
> and members of the relation. Adding members works by selecting them
> through the usual JOSM means and then using the "add selected"
> function in the relation editor. If you want to highlight the
> relation's members on screen, that works the other way round - there's
> a button that makes JOSM select all those objects that are member of
> the relation.
>
> If it behaves differently than described here, let me know so I can
> fix it ;-)
>
>
> The big "todo" for JOSM in terms of relation support is having
> "specialist" editor views for different kinds of relation that would
> make working with them easier (and more foolproof), e.g. a route
> relation editor where you get a "halo" type display and just add and
> remove ways by clicking (and cannot ever add nodes), and such.
>

Great idea.
A route of a bus would need the nodes for the bus stops.

Shaun

> Bye
> Frederik
>
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