[OSM-talk] Russia free for the taking

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net>:

> Will it be easy to split and/or merge ways?

Very easy (I hope!). To split, for example, you'll click the relevant  
node and then click a pair of scissors (or press a shortcut key).

> 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?

I would personally favour the latter, but there'd need to be a  
consensus that "untagged" ways should be created in preference to  
segments alone, and I don't think we yet have such a consensus.

Imi has (I think?) in the past spoken about moving JOSM towards a  
one-stage process for drawing ways, rather than the three-stage rumba  
of create nodes/join nodes into segments/join segments into ways, and  
this would certainly tally with such an approach. (Apologies if I've  
misunderstood you, Imi.)

cheers
Richard