[OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

Celso González celso at mitago.net
Mon Nov 2 14:17:36 GMT 2009


On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:59:10PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
 
> I have nothing against good UI design which would make this sort of
> thing easy. Doing this in JOSM currently is much harder than it should
> be. What I usually do when I want to do this is:
> 
>  1. Import the GPX track
>  2. Convert it to OSM
>  3. Split up the bit I need & select it
>  4. Search for "-selected" to invert selection
>  5. Delete (nukes all the bits I don't want
>  6. Merge to main datalayer
>  7. Manually connect the track to other roads
>  8. Manually clean it up (e.g. getting rid of self-intersections)
>  9. Maybe simplify it. But sometimes the automatic utilsplugin
> simplify process sucks so I'd rather do it myself

Instead using this workflow maybe its better to use the editgpx plugin

1. Import the GPX track
2. Use the editgpx plugin to clean it up
3. convert egpx to gpx 
4. convert it to OSM
and continue in
6. Merge to main datalayer

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Celso González (PerroVerd)
http://mitago.net




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