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

[Lennard]

> 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.

Exactly, and that was what he was told in the ticket.

I entirely disagree with the suggestion to disable autocontinuation, and
am very content with the way JOSM currently works in that respect.

The example in the ticket (starting from a node in the middle of a way
produces a continuation) is convoluted as well. It *doesn't* do a
continuation of that way. That's also impossible in the data model.

In the example (in the ticket) that node is also the endpoint of *another*
way, and it does do a contination of *that*. However, it's made out to
appear that selecting a non-endpoint node of a way and then drawing from
that will produce a continuation. Not so.

In short: use the modifier key when drawing a new way from an existing
endpoint node. Don't go through all the hoopla of extending a way, then
splitting it, deleting the tags, applying new tags. That only makes life
difficult and indeed obfuscates the way history.

-- 
Lennard