[OSM-talk] Tidying up.

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Lester Caine schrieb:
> 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.


JOSM

I do everything in JOSM except joining ways (well sort of I use JOSM for
it, but not as a 1-step thing), and for mapping from yahoo imagery I use
the online applet. (however after inserting nodes and segments I
immediately switch over to JOSM)

> 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.

in JOSM: chose the way tool, select the way, click the last segment:
violà: a bare segment. now you can modify that end as you wish. (create
a second segment and the corresponding ways or delete the segment and
rework the junction or whatever)

> 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.

JOSM can also show you the direction of the segments, it's in the
preferences...

> 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?

In JOSM: select the way, select the nodes at the beginning and end of
the bridge (shift click) and select "split 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?

JOSM's "reorder segments" function should always order the segments in
the right order, if that fails you should report it as a bug IMHO.

> 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?

Not sure what you want to do here...


Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie

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