[Talk-ca] CANVEC Comments

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 15:19:23 BST 2010


I'm feeling thick today.  How do I break it into ways?

This isn't my top priority at the moment I'm busy putting names on
unnamed streets.

Thanks John

On 30 July 2010 04:36, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> With both halfes of the building polygons loaded into osm, break apart
> both polygons into ways, and remove both of the ways that are in the
> middle of the polygon,
> then merge the ways back into a closed polygon, it might require
> reversing the direction of one of the ways.
>
>
> this retains the geogetry and merges the 2 adjacent polygons into one.
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 7/30/10, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhon
>>>
>>> On 2010-07-29, at 7:56 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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