[OSM-newbies] Joining two pieces of a way

[Andre Engels]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:21 AM, 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.

Start as if you simply want to extend the way, and move in such a way
that the other way is highlighted (so that there would be a common
point created if you would click). Then move (back) to the common
point and press shift+click. I myself find it easier to first remove
the common point from one of the ways, then re-add it in that way.

Still, I have to wonder whether merging the ways is the right way to
go here: there is a lot of TIGER-data, and I am not 100% sure all of
that data applies to both parts of the way. However, you being in the
US, you can probably make a better decision on that.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com