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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Dave Stubbs wrote:

> The oneway problem (I have no idea if the street is defined in the right
> direction).

You can tell the direction by looking at the little arrow button-like  
thing in the bottom left. (It'll be clickable when we move to 0.5, and  
will swap directions.)

> Merging ways.

Guess what? Shift-click. :) Basically: take the end-point of one way,  
then shift-click the end-point of the next. If they're currently the  
same point, then remove the node from one (press '-')' first.

> 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.

I've been thinking about sandbox/non-write modes for a while, will  
have something to show before too long.

> 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.

No, very true. Remember you can press R to repeat the attributes from  
the previously selected way, though, or shift-R to repeat the  
attributes except name and ref.

cheers
Richard