[OSM-newbies] splitting ways

[Robert Hart]

On 04/05/07, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the things that I am doing on OSM is to fill in detail around the
> area I live, to
> do this I am finding myself 'splitting ways' a great deal.
>
> Is there a better tool for doing this than JOSM ? I find that when I
> recombine the way's
> I often lose the original tags so that I need to re-enter them

I don't quite understand what you are trying to acheive. Although
splitting ways is sometimes necessary, I don't see why you'd ever need
to recombine them.

A much more frequent task is to insert extra nodes into an existig
way. This can be done in JOSM using one of the modes of the node tool.

Rob
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Robert Hart