[OSM-talk-be] Problems with JOSM's unwanted behaviour.

[Renaud MICHEL]

On lundi 11 juillet 2011 at 12:22, Gerard Vanderveken wrote :
> - When you start drawing a way somewhere in a node, JOSM always assumes 
> you want to continue some way already present.
> This is very annoying and unproductive, because this is nearly always 
> not what you wanted or intended.

Press Ctrl while clicking on the end note, JOSM will start a new way.

You can also start your new way at the second node, and then connect it to  
the end of the  other way.

> - When you split a way, the old id (and by consequence its history) are 
> always in the first part, and the second part gets a new id.
> This way the history and id can be left by the smallest part. It should 
> always assigned to the  biggest part.

For that, I temporarily reverse the way to have the history on the good 
part, then reverse both part back (but this is only important for ways where 
the orientation matters, like oneways or rivers).

-- 
Renaud Michel