[josm-dev] Expanded functionality of Join Areas action

[Sebastian Klein]

Hi,

I wonder if the user would expect all these features from a "Join Areas" 
command. How would you call it then, "Swiss Army Knife for Areas"?

Why not have one tool for joining areas and another tool for creating them?

(Just in case you don't know already: There are Multipolygon creation 
plugins (with very limited functionality) and a class 
data.osm.visitor.paint.relations.Multipolygon to detect inner and outer 
rings.)

The multipoly plugin will be included in JOSM core as soon as it has all 
features that you would expect from such a tool. (E.g. create 
multipolygon from "several unclosed ways that together form a closed 
way".) So you can either get svn access (if you don't have already) and 
hack on the multipoly plugin or simply post the patch for josm core at 
the bug tracker.


Sebastian


Viesturs Zariņš wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I am new to this list, but not new to JOSM.
> I would like to propose expanded functionality of Join Areas command and 
> would like to hear your comments.
> Let's make it into a multipolygon making tool.
> 
> I propose two new use cases:
> - select outer and inner way that have no intersections. Joining them 
> makes a multipolygon, transfers all relevant tags from outer way to the 
> multipolygon.
> - select several unclosed ways that together form a closed way. Joining 
> them makes a new multipolygon.
> 
> Ultimately I see the Join areas as a tool to "Make an area out of the 
> selected ways, no matter what it takes" and the tool will do all that is 
> necessary to do so.
> 
> I am willing to implement the change, and have sufficient experience on 
> improving existing current implementation of Join Areas ( see bug #5179).
> 
> Cheers,
> Viesturs