[talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

[James Andrewartha]

2009/12/8 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>>
>> don't know what is avail in potlatch overall
>> a is 'add' mode
>> s is 'select' mode
>> d is 'delete' mode
>> u is unselect
>
> Oh yeah, good old modal editing :) It's like using vim. I found this
> horribly tedious. In potlatch, left-click does everything! (Honestly, I much
> prefer Potlatch in this area. But it may be because I use dvorak keyboard,
> and a/s/d are not near each other. I tried remapping the keys, didn't work
> for some reason.)

I find Potlatch is better for from-scratch editing, but for editing
existing data JOSM is as good. The modal thing is annoying, but when
there's already ways you can drag the middle + to create a new node in
select mode. The main things I wish JOSM had from Potlatch are to
repeat the tags from the last way (R in Potlatch), and built-in
history instead of opening a web browser. JOSM's presets are a lot
nicer in that it knows what common keys and values are appropriate,
but being able to just drag the shortcut nodes in Potlatch onto the
map is pretty good too.

>> m is merge nodes ( a function which i have not found in potlatch)
>
> You can work around it by merging a node and a way, then deleting the
> superfluous node. I don't think you can merge two ways though.

Ctrl-click in JOSM joins two ways.

>> there are two other really good ones which are key combos and i use from
>> the menu "orthogonalise shape"

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James Andrewartha