[Tagging] turning layers off

[fly]

Am 05.06.2014 19:10, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
> 
> 2014-06-05 16:46 GMT+02:00 Tom Gertin <tgertin at gmail.com
> <mailto:tgertin at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     Is it possible to turn visibility of certain layers or feature types
>     off in OpenStreetMap (Id or JOSM), such as features with a landuse tag?
> 
> 
> 
> Alternatively you could change the appearance by customizing the landuse
> style (e.g. make it more transparent).
> What also might be useful to know: if you press CTRL while drawing your
> new nodes won't get integrated into the existing ways / nodes (override
> snapping).

another quick solution for JOSM would be the option to only render the
border of areas under map preferences.

> Generally filtering stuff out in the editor is risky because somehow
> everything is connected (in the sense of "has a relation to the rest of
> the surrounding data").

I admit that you have to be more careful when using filters but they
help a lot.

Cheers fly