[OSM-talk] Cannot correct ring self intersection --> josm enhancement needed?

[D Tucny]

On 13/03/2008, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) <
openstreetmap at ostertag.name> wrote:
>
> > > Alternatively you could split the way into 2: select the way & the
> node
> > > with the 4 segments, then tools->Split Way. I'm not certain whether
> this
> > > will end up with 2 closed ways but I think it should.
> >
> > I have not succeeded at all in splitting closed ways with JOSM. It
> always
> > says to me that I should select a node from the middle of the road.  It
> > seems to think that any node in the closed ring is the starting
> one.  Other
> > way to think is that any node in the ring is in the middle...
>
> I have not succeeded in doing this either ...
> So maybe this is woth an enhancement request for josm ...


I found that to split a ring you need to select two nodes then split
resulting in two ways, effectively taking a slice out of the ring...

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