[OSM-talk] Is *just* tracing useful?

[Dave Stubbs]

On 07/09/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
> > I can also correct stuff. Unfortunately I can't do it very effectively
> in
> > Potlatch (it isn't designed for that purpose), which makes it slightly
> > tricky for me to use the Yahoo imagery in my mapping. Basically it's not
> so
> > much a question of whether I /can/, but that it takes about twice as
> long.
>
> What exactly are you trying to do, and subject to the usual UI
> constraints, how can I make it easier?



The oneway problem (I have no idea if the street is defined in the right
direction).
Merging ways.
Basically a common problem is that a road goes round a corner, but the
tracing makes it go straight on.
Or the road continues as it crosses another but the tracing splits it.

What I tend to do in JOSM is delete the way from one, then reuse the
segments into the other way... there's no obvious way of doing it in
Potlatch (although I haven't tried shift-clicking much). Part of the problem
is that it sometimes feels like magic and I'm not sure what's going to
happen when I do something... I'm one of these people who like to know
what's going on under the cover a bit, and Potlatch is scarey because edits
are live and not undoable.

The other thing I find is quite a lot of the traced ways are tagged as
unclassified... I replace these with residential where appropriate and do
this by selecting them all and then setting the tag on all of them -- you
can't do this is Potlatch.


When I'm working from scratch I don't need any of this functionality and
Potlatch works great on it's own now that it does POIs.
Although at the moment I'm using JOSM for tagging anyway because I've taken
photos for the street names which I need to match to the GPS trace.
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