[OSM-talk] using JOSM in Los Angeles

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Tue Jul 18 13:26:36 BST 2006


Following comments based on version 110 of JOSM, running on WindowsXP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blars Blarson" <blarson at blars.org>
To: <talk at lists.openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:14 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] using JOSM in Los Angeles


> After never getting osmeditor2 to do much other than segfault, I set
> up a dedicated system to run JOSM.  (I don't run untrusted non-free
> software on any of my real systems.)  (The osmeditor2 version was from
> a few months ago, after ignoring the documentation and opening a gpx
> file it showed some dots.  It segfaulted doing pretty much anything
> else.)
>
> JOSM is mostly working, if not quite the way I expected after reading
> the documentation.  Unfortunatly, I uploaded some incorrect things
> while experimenting and the delete feature doesn't work.
>
>
> Some feature requests (or questions on how to do it) for JOSM:
>
> Deleting

I'm not sure why you are having a problem here,  the delete button works 
fine for me allowing the deletion of ways, segments and nodes

>
> Making trackpoints bigger so they can be seen

I dont think this can be done


> Making track lines a different color than trackpoints

>From the menu Edit>Preferences click the top button, you can then change 
colours of segments ways etc.

Alternatively  open the layers windows, (fifth button from bottom on left 
hand menu - or ALT-L) then right click on the GPX track layer icon and 
choose "cutomise colour"
>
> Getting information on trackpoints
>
> Removing obviously bogus tracklines.  GPS either lost fix or
> was turned off.
>
> Some way to select a segment that can't be bound by a
> rectangle that does not contain other segments without selecting the
> other segments.

Select the smallest rectangle you can which covers the required segment. 
Ensure selection list window is open (third button from left).  Once you 
have selected the rectangle then all segments / nodes in that rectangle will 
be listed in the selection window.   Clicking a segment in that window 
highlights it (though it does unfortunately cause all the other listed 
segments to disappear from the selection window)

>
> Getting rid of sets of trackpoins without having to exit/reenter.
>
>
>
>
> Comments/questions on editing conventions:
>
> I'm doing a single way for freeways, labling it
> highway=motorway.  At this point, I think it's better to spend time
> getting major features in rather than getting a few things perfect.
>
> Naming: I'm naming things like I5, CA2 etc.
>
> The wiki said not to use abbreviations, but almost all entered
> data does.  I think the wiki should be fixed to match the data, and a
> set of standard abbreviations set or addopted.
>
> What is primary, secondary etc.  Is it determined by width,
> speed limit, traffic patterns, abbutters?
>
> How should dual signed freeways be handled?  (Example: I5 and
> I10 merge together for a mile)
>
I believe the correct method is to include the segments realting to the 
merged freways in to different ways, one way will be for I% and one way for 
I10.


> How about alternate names: portions of CA2 is the "Glendale
> Freeway".  Some names don't follow the numbers: "Hollywood Freeway" is
> CA170 and portions of US101
>
> ((far?) future) How should HOV (aka carpool) lanes be handled?
>
>
>
>
> The editing applet kinda works, but is unusable due to slow responce.
> (Do an action, wait a minute to see if the display starts updating,
> wait 5-10 more to get the display completely updated.)
>
Yes :), JOSM or one of the other offline editors are far better for most 
ediitng tasks.  The only time I now use the applet is to change the 
direction of a segment.

David


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