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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Gerald A wrote:

> I'm thinking that "make this street one way" should be a button on  
> incantation; it's probably one of the things most mappers will  
> encounter (in a city), and it's harder to do this then it needs to  
> be now.

Agreed. Ultimately I plan to redo the entire tags panel so that you  
don't have to refer to Map Features except in rare cases. Will  
require a bit of work though!

> Additional one-way question: Some local streets here are one ways  
> for part of the road, and either one way in another direction in  
> parts, or two ways. Is there any way to designate this in Potlatch  
> (or JOSM either, for that matter?)

Just do them as two different ways; might be easiest to draw the road  
as one, tag it up, then split and tag each individual part.

> Ok, silly question: I have a few ways that have "lost" pieces in  
> the middle somehow. Think
> A-B C-D, where there is no connection between B and C in the map,  
> but there is in real life.
> Does "shfit click" work to join them? (When I "click" on AB or CD  
> in Potlatch, AB and CD are
> highlighted already).

It doesn't, I'm afraid. Shift-click to merge ways only works from the  
start or end (A or D).

The A-B C-D thing comes from the fact that segments can appear in any  
combination within a way. When segments are dropped with OSM 0.5, it  
will cease to be a problem; A-B and C-D will be separate ways which  
you can rejoin as normal.

cheers
Richard