[Merkaartor] Sections of imported way are offset

[Chris Browet]

Could you please put the specific files you were using (SHP and OSM)
somewhere:
1) to be sure we are in the same situation
2) because I don't feel like navigating the NHD site nor fiddling with
nhd2osm if not necessary ;-)

- Chris -

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 19:04, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm observing weird behavior when importing osm files into Merkaartor.  I
> am working with a dataset I obtained from the NHD website[1].  The set
> contains various shapefiles: one of multipolygons, one of areas, one of
> lines, and a few others.  Importing the shapefiles into Merkaartor fails
> ("...could not be opened") but I can convert them to osm format using
> nhd2osm scripts[2].  Importing the osm version works fine, but only for the
> first type of file that I import.  When I import the second type, small
> sections (sometimes just single nodes) in many of the ways are displaced
> away from the rest of the way.  This always occurs to the second type of osm
> file that I import, no matter what order the files are imported.  For
> example, if I import two osm files containing multipolygons and then import
> one containing lines, the lines will be displayed with small sections or
> nodes displaced from the rest of the line.  Likewise if I import the line
> file first and then one of the multipolygon files, sections of ways from the
> multipolygon files will be incorrect.  I'm not really sure what's happening
> but it looks like a bug.  Has anyone else observed this?
>
> I'm using Merkaarter from svn: r21385.
>
> [1]http://nhd.usgs.gov/data.html
> [2]http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/nhd2osm/
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