[OSM-talk] Russia free for the taking

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Quoting "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net>:
> 
>> I think a solution needs to be found to show non-way'd segments on the
>> slippy map in some form, so that people who know the area but don't have
>> the equipment (or just the time or inclination) to track the roads
>> themselves can connect the ways and add the road names.
> 
> There will be a Flash editor RSN (like, three weeks or so) which will  
> provide user-friendly drawing/tagging functionality for novice users.
> 
> It will, however, only work with ways, which is why I'm keen to see a  
> way-based solution for "untagged" routes.

Do you mean that if there are nodes and segments already marking a road,
it will not show them to the end user, and the user will then add a
whole load of duplicates?

This doesn't sound great.

Will it be easy to split and/or merge ways? Can we just make all unwayed
segments into individual ways, and let people join the ways together
later, or can we join more than makes sense into a way (like go round
corners etc.) and people then split them later? Because at the moment,
in JOSM at least, doing either doesn't seem obvious, so you have to get
the ways right first time. Of course, I could be wrong about JOSM.

Robert (Jamie) Munro

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