[OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Stephen Gower wrote:
>   You can, of course, do what you like, but I'd urge you not to do
>   this without an improvement in the editors.  If I come to edit near
>   a junction and find 15 people have sketched out how they see the
>   junction could be improved, that's a lot of ways that don't render
>   that I'm going to have to pick through to find the actual ways and
>   nodes for whatever it is I'm editing.  We'd need a way to quickly
>   remove all the virtual ways in order to get through to the valid
>   OSM data.

I'm halfway through a JOSM update that will make these things easier.

With current JOSM versions, you can already hide or gray out certain 
features by putting proper styles in the mappaint style file. They will 
still get in the way though when editing. I'm planning to enable an 
extra option in the mappaint style file that makes things un-selectable 
so you could choose to still see the "historic roman town layout" ways 
but you wouldn't accidentally move them or connect them to a motorway.

In addition, I'll make mappaint styles switchable through a menu, so 
that you can switch between views without restarting.

This is not the perfect solution - ideally you wouldn't even download 
data that is of no concern to you - but it will make many things easier.

As always, some things remain unsolved and around every corner lurks an 
UI nightmare (create a new way and tag it with somthing that makes it 
non-selectable and so on) but then again, JOSM isn't Potlatch, JOSM has 
the historic right to be an UI nightmare ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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