[OSM-talk] Tidying up.

[Lester Caine]

Now that I'm actively working on live data I'm finding a few more things 
that are difficult to fix so perhaps someone has an easy solution.

I've been using JOSM, the on-line edit and just tried Merkaartor.

1. A way already exists, but does not have the split section approaching 
a roundabout, so I need to delete the last segment and create two 
separate segments with the right direction. JOSM only allows me to 
delete the whole way. The on-line editor lets me delete a node at the 
end of the way and then rebuild, but it's clunky. So i've been deleting 
the nodes in one and the doing a clean download in JOSM. But Merk. is 
showing me that the directions are wrong, which I can change in there - 
except some of the roundabouts have segments going opposite directions 
and Merk. does all the segments at once.

2. I have a lot of bridge sections to insert, and so I need to split the 
way in three. Any way of doing that without wiping the whole way?

3. If I add elements to the end of a way, and tell it to reorder in the 
final step, should all the segments be in sequence? I have a few ways 
where the numbering of the segments in Merk. is out of order. What is 
the easiest way to correct that?

4. I suspect what I actually need is a text editor to allow me to tidy 
these sort of things, and that the API would allow me to access and 
update things, but I'm having trouble identifying way numbers. Is there 
any tool for tweaking things in text?

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