[Talk-ca] CANVEC Comments

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 09:08:22 BST 2010


Well I now know a little more about JOSM and Validator but I still
haven't quite worked out how to merge the two parts of the building.

Thanks John

On 29 July 2010 21:35, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:
> If you draw a selection box over where the two tiles meet and run the validator in Josm one of the errors it can report is "duplicate nodes".  When you are merging tiles where roads and areas are split between the tiles there is a copy of all nodes on the "border" between the tiles in each file.  Josm Recognizes this and can merge the nodes from both tiles so there are no duplicates.
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> Sent from my iPhon
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> On 2010-07-29, at 7:56 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sounds simple but Shift-J doesn't seem to do anything, they don't
>> quite overlap.  What is a duplicate node error and how do I fix it?
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
>>> - Select the data all along the boundaries of the tile.
>>> - Use the JOSM Validator on the selection.
>>> - Fix all the duplicate node errors.
>>> - Select both ways that make up the building/area (ie shift-click on both
>>> parts of the building) and hit SHIFT-J to execute the "Join overlapping
>>> areas"
>>> - Voila!
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