[OSM-talk] The segments vs ways vs superways question again...

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:45:56 +0000, Dave <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> The only way this is going to happen is with tool support. ie: write
> something for JOSM to help you accomplish editing in this way. There's
> absolutely no way I'm going to be bothered to create a new way for each
> fork
> in a housing estate -- it just takes too long with the current editing
> modes. It would be nice to overhaul JOSMs editing modes anyway... the
> whole
> plant nodes, drag segments, select ways thing can be a bit long winded.

Osmeditor2 tries to do it all for you, but I found that really confusing. I quite like the current system in JOSM, though perhaps you could toggle "connect nodes with segments as I go" for those times when you're just drawing lots of little roads.


> Way splitting tools may be useful (add a way join tool too!)... or just do
> a
> complete rethink. Maybe some automatic backend things like reordering
> ways,
> or autosplitting branches.

Would it be possible to run a "clean up bad data" tool on the server to do this, rather like the spellchecker? It couldn't be too difficult to look at each way and re-order the segments so they face in the right direction and are in sequence... he says as he offers 0mins of his pathetic programming skills to help =) That would be *much* better than us manually cleaning up all of the bad ways on the system. It's enough work already fixing areas I come across whilst entering my own data in a small area!

Regards,
Tom