[OSM-talk] using JOSM in Los Angeles

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,

thanks for your feedback - it is always welcome :-)


> 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.

Can you explain what your problem is? Did you get any error messages?

There was a bug in josm revision 113 regarding the delete feature (when
you delete a node from two line segments) and it is fixed now (revision
114).


> Some feature requests (or questions on how to do it) for JOSM:
>
> 	Deleting

select anything, then press delete.
Or press delete first, then click on the thing to delete. If it works, it
is (hopefully) quite simple. :-)


> 	Making trackpoints bigger so they can be seen

Hm.. That has now been requested so often, that I think it may be worth
the huge drop in drawing speed. I will implement a corresponding option in
the next version, but don't complain when JOSM's responsivness will drop
to bottom! ;-)

Note also, that you can change the color to white, which improve the
visibility of the dots a bit.


> 	Making track lines a different color than trackpoints

There is no such thing as a track line in JOSM. The option to turn on a
line between two points is only for better visibility, but it is not an
intern structure. What do you need the different color for? Better
visibility?


> 	Removing obviously bogus tracklines.  GPS either lost fix or
> was turned off.

I think you mean "remove bogus GPS points" ;-). Well, yes. This was
requested before and will be implemented sometime.

There is a greater package planned for editing features on GPS
trackpoints, as example thin out clouds (standing on an traffic light) or
remove points in a section (wrong way).


> 	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.

Just click on the segment. If a way is on top of the segment, press Alt to
select "Segments instead of ways" (as described in the user manual ;-)


> 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.

Always depends on what you want to achieve. If you like to create a nice
picture of your surrounding for displaying it at your homepage, then doing
a small part perfectly is the way to go... ;-)


> 	How should dual signed freeways be handled?  (Example: I5 and
> I10 merge together for a mile)

You can create a seperate way for every freeway. The fact that both ways
share some common line segments is by design.


> 	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

There were different proposals about mutliple names. Some prefere
"name1;name2;name3", but this is not supported by osmarender (or any other
render client).

Other suggested using "name=foo", "name2=bar", "name3=baz"... which uses
name as the most common one, but it isn't clear what those "most common"
is.

You could try to squeeze the ways into one name, as example "Hollywood
Freeway (CA170, part. US101)" but this just looks weird.

The last category of ideas requires changes in the internal data structure
and is not possible yet. Join dev at openstreetmap.org and start a discussion
about it, if you like ;-)


> 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.)

In the applet, you can continue to edit, even when not all changes are
uploaded yet. Well, if you do this, you risk to loose all uncommited
changes in case of server problems.. :-(

If I remember correctly, there should be an small "uploading..." text in the
lower right when the server is busy.

Ciao, Imi