[Merkaartor] Deleting Roads

bvh bvh-osm at irule.be
Tue Jun 10 08:17:00 BST 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:08:37AM +0200, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> > Because nodes can contain other informations. How to make the
> > distinction between a node just for the road and a node witch contain
> > important tag ?
> When the node contains any tages except the standards like "created_by". 
> Normal road nodes contain no tags (normally also no created_by).

There is already a function to test if a node is worthy in the upload
code.

> Editing elements outside of download area is anyway dangerous and should 
> not be done at all. That's why josm adds a download area box in the 
> display.

I like this idea. Do we have a trac to add this functionality?

> > So it is really difficult to know which node delete. We can try to do
> > a smart function, but my experience with smart software is
> > difficulties and unpredictabilities. For me an editor must stay as
> > simple as  possible. It's the user job to be smart.
> The result of deleting roads without the nodes will be lots of nodes 
> without tags in the database.

We should have both delete modes, no?

cu bart




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