[OSM-talk] using JOSM in Los Angeles

[Blars Blarson]

In article <63353.194.180.239.5.1153235355.squirrel at www.eigenheimstrasse.de> 
immanuel.scholz at gmx.de writes:
>> 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?

No error message, just doesn't appear to do anything.  Selected
segments stay selected and stay on the screen.

>> 	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.

I already changed the color to yellow to make them visable at all.
Still hard to tell from dust on the screen.

>> 	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?

Better visability of the point, less visablility of the line.  Either
I get a buch of almost invisible dots with no idea of which connects
to what, or I get a bunch of lines that overlap a lot and obscure
where the actual trackpoints are.

>> 	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.

No, I mean bogus tracklines.  My GPS does not produce many bogus
trackpoints, but when tracklines are on there are many between my
house and whereever the GPS finally determanded the position.  I also
see random lines going where the GPS obviously lost signal and didn't
do any trackpoints for a while.

>> 	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

TIGER is inconsistant about such labling.  Sometimes they use the
number, other times the name.

>> 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.

Uploading isn't the problem, I think it's just my slow SDSL connection
and the latency.  Like I said, it takes about 10 minutes to update the
screen.  I'm not going to make any changes when the screen is still
moving around.

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