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

[Gerard Vanderveken]

Renaud MICHEL wrote:

>On lundi 11 juillet 2011 at 12:22, Gerard Vanderveken wrote :
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>>- 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.
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>Press Ctrl while clicking on the end note, JOSM will start a new way.
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No, this leads to a double node and the way is not connected to the 
crossing.

>You can also start your new way at the second node, and then connect it to  
>the end of the  other way.
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I think I've seen JOSM doing  a continuation that way to, but it doesn't 
seem to happen in the example node.
However when you need to make a way between two crossings, it can come 
from either side.

>>- 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.
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>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).
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That's what i try to do, when paying attention to it, but I feel JOSM 
should do it automatically.
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