[Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #3633: Usability: Prompt user to join points when adding way that crosses another way

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#3633: Usability: Prompt user to join points when adding way that crosses another
way
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 Reporter:  CycleStreets  |       Owner:  potlatch-dev@…                
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new                           
 Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                                
Component:  potlatch2     |     Version:                                
 Keywords:                |  
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 I tried adding a cycle track alongside a main road, i.e.

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        |
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 }}}

 where = was the existing road and | shows the existing side road.

 By default the point where - and | meet does not become a node, meaning
 that it presumably doesn't count as being joined. I found this surprising.

 Presumably it is rare that the user doesn't want this to happen, and would
 be when they have a bridge or other z-axis data?

 Can I suggest a dialog on release of the line drawing along the lines of
 "Do you want to join these points?" or even better, just auto-create it,
 perhaps appearing dynamically as a half-shaded ghost point as the line is
 being drawn, with an option in some way to undo this implicit node
 creation?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3633>
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