[OSM-talk] JOSM observations from a newcomer

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:03:25PM +0100, David Earl wrote:
> - Short cut to defining all the segments, then going over them again to
> select them, and then making them into a Way: how about a mode which both
> creates a segment and adds to the previous Way at the same time (or starts a
> new Way if you haven't just done one). Even better, combine with adding
> nodes, so I can create a Way by just clicking along my tracklog (a rubber
> band to the previous point would also be helpful while doing this).

There is a nice (and small) patch* floating around that creates a node and also a
segment back to the previous node. I think Imi has it in mind to add to JOSM
sometime soon from what he said on IRC. Unfortunately it no longer applied to
the latest version when I tried.

> - How do I merge two ways into one?
> - How do I split one Way into two?

Neither are yet possible, unless things have changed very recently.

-- 
Matthew

* Sorry, can't remember the name of the person who created it just now, but it
  is in the dev archives for about a month ago.