[talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

[David Groom]

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From: "James Andrewartha" <trs80 at student.uwa.edu.au>
To: <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM


>
> 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.

Is the history panel , Alt+Shift+H (or the book icon on the left hand menu),
not good enough?

David

> 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
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