[OSM-talk] JOSM feature requests

[Andrew Loughhead]

I hope I am not missing a feature that already exists in JOSM. What I 
would really like to see is the ability to select, say by drawing a 
polygon, a sequence of trackpoints from a local gpx file, and a button 
to turn that set into a segment.  I know I can turn an entire gpx file 
into a "data layer", but what I want is to pick a good bit from a track 
file, where the gps track is clear and the road does not need 
interpretation, and easily convert that into segment and way data.  It 
could save lots of node creating and segment linking time.

Going on from that, I know osm-filter.pl offers some data simplification 
ability.  It would be great if JOSM could do similar things, in terms of 
being able to simplify tracks where appropriate.  For example, I could 
first create a draft sequence of segments straight from gpx data as 
described above, and secondly automatically simplify away my 1-second 
gps points, if the road is very straight.   This would also help to 
build consistency across contributors, if the data reduction were 
(optionally) automated to a standard set of parameters, rather than 
being strictly an eyeball kind of process.

Thanks for JOSM!
cheers
Andrew.


Emil wrote:
> Just a few ideas,
>
> 1. A way to get a URL for OSM to display the section of the world
> currently in view in the josm window.  (for easily referring people to
> bits of the map you've been working on)
>
> 2. Allow retrieving GPS points at the same time as segments - have 2
> tick boxes,  one for "fetch segments", the other for "fetch gpx
> points". (at the moment there's one tickbox, but it's not really a
> yes/no question...)
>
> 3. Allow displaying lines between the points in your own loaded .gpx
> files, but leaving the gpx points downloaded from the database as just
> points. (i.e. this will mean that in places like london you can see
> your own journeys, as they'll be in lines, but also see the other gpx
> points as points)
>
> 4. Bit of a general one this, but it seems to hang on to selections
> for longer than I think it should. i.e. i'm always moving, deleting
> etc things by mistake, as i forget they're still selected. Perhaps
> it's just me...
>
> Hope these make sense. I'm enjoying using JOSM, these aren't
> complaints, they're suggestions!
>
> And for the online applet, for gawd's sake allow some way to add nodes
> into existing segments - i've lost count of the number of times I've
> encounted segments that look connected but aren't!
>
> Emil
>
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