[OSM-newbies] Joining two pieces of a way

[Steve Bennett]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Isaac Wingfield <isw at witzend.com> wrote:

> I have determined by inspection that the unnamed road here (Potlatch
> in edit mode highlights it):
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.265624&lon=-121.91252&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
>
> is an extension of Manda Drive, which is already a named way, and
> which shares an endpoint with the unnamed part. It seems that the
> proper thing to do is simply join the unnamed part to the named part,
> but I cannot figure out how to do that. The Potlatch "cheat sheet"
> says something about "Join/Merge to another line (if they share an end
> point)" by Shift/click, but nothing particularly useful happens when I
> do that.
>
>
Try ctrl+clicking. Also, it doesn't matter all that much if they're "one
way", as long as they're both named correctly. You can just make two ways
that connect.

Steve
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