[OSM-talk] Newbie - queries and usability suggestions

[Barry Crabtree]

Hi again!


> NONE of the editing tools I've tried are exactly what I'd call user
> friendly - not sure the best way to feedback on these.  The API is not bad,
> but of course slow - but also seems to lack adding a node to an existing way
> - seems a bit poor.  JOSM is faster but seems to freeze a lot (perhaps my
> track is too large) - unable to do certain tasks like select lines, I also
> seem unable to get pop-out windows all the time when I click things like add
> node to give choice of adding a node or adding a node to a segment? It seems
> intermittent.   Moving the track about is not intuitive - right click and
> slide?


Totally puzzled by your JOSM comments - I've used it fine - you seem to be
describing something completely different to JOSM!

selecting lines - type 's' or select from the left hand menu & left mouse
click selects. Hold the shift key to select multiple things.

adding nodes - type 'n' or again selct from left-hand menu & left mouse
click adds a node. Don't need to reselect to add another node, just click
away...

moving nodes - type 'm' or select from menu left click on node - hold down &
drag & unclick when you are at the right position..

zooming in/out of the map is a bit odd. I use a mouse with a scroll wheel -
scrolling one way zooms out. The other zooms in. The zoom is focussed on the
current mouse postion, so you can pan with a wierd zoom out/in action. Would
be nice if there were a pan.

Where did that come from? Merkator?  Can't get it to actually let me edit!
> ....




I've only briefly played so far but when I render I notice a few oddities
> -  the road names are sometimes upside down. Motorway (A1(M), flagged as
> motorway, is shown in Green.  Is there a better way to render?  Because if I
> export to SVG and manually tweak then next time I export I'll need to do the
> same manual tweaks?


I export as OSM and use osmarender off-line to create  SVG's (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender)

Finally - would it not be logical to be able to do my track conversions over
> a background which is a rendered version of the map (either dynamically
> rendered [prefered] or at least at last save/load etc.


That might be nice...

Cheers. Baz.
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