[OSM-talk] osmeditor2 update with several new features

[nick at hogweed.org]

Hello everyone,

Just uploaded the latest version of osmeditor2 to SVN, with several extra 
features and usability improvements. Note that it has only had somewhat 
limited testing so bugs may become apparent; however you may well find it 
very useful for colouring in the Isle of Wight :-) (PS: thanks to whoever it 
was who made segments out of my walk on the downs on Sunday...)

New features:

- can grab GPX tracks from the OSM server; useful for creating new segments.

- improved segment selection. Now you can just click on a segment rather than 
clicking on its two nodes to select it.

- the way creation bug (see emails circa early April) appears to have resolved 
itself.

- way selection. If a segment is part of a way, you can select the whole way. 
You can then change the type, or delete, the way, just as you can with a 
selected segment.

- now uses the newer tags (highway=footway etc) for segments rather than the 
older ones (class=path etc). 

- Landsat grabbing does not freeze the application - you can continue to 
interact with it while it is waiting for Landsat data to come back. Note 
*Landsat grabbing has a bug of some sort at the moment as tiles occasionally 
come back corrupted. I will look at this*

- dependency on cURL removed. Now the only dependency is Qt 3.

- removed the old osmeditor source code, now you can just make by typing 
"make" :-)

Future features are as follows, though I am going to switch back to 
development of the "nick.dev.openstreetmap.org" renderer (notably WMS 
compliance) in the next few days.

- enhance the "break segment" tool so that if the segment to be broken is in a 
way, the two new segments will be added to the way in the correct place. This 
is part done at the moment but not ready to use.
- move to the new-style tags for points of interest as well as segments.
- allow the user to specify the "ref" of a way (e.g. A33, T17), as well as its 
"name" (e.g. The Avenue, Isle of Wight Coast Path)
- area creation. Users will be able to create an area, e.g. a built up area or 
lake, by drawing on the Landsat. 

Nick