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

[Renaud MICHEL]

On lundi 11 juillet 2011 at 13:03, Gerard Vanderveken wrote :
> Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> >Press Ctrl while clicking on the end note, JOSM will start a new way.
> 
> No, this leads to a double node and the way is not connected to the
> crossing.

Right, I didn't pay attention this.

But If you click on the last node of your way, then press Alt while adding 
the next node, then you end up with a new way that share its first node with 
the previous way.

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

JOSM can't know what part of the way should keep the history, so the best he 
can do automatically is to always assign the history in a consistent way.

The other solutions is to ask the user which part of the way should retain 
the history, maybe there is a plugin to do that, but I personally prefer the 
way it works now.

-- 
Renaud Michel