[OSM-talk] JOSM and shapefile rendering

[Mike Thompson]

Blake,

Thanks for the clever tips.  I will try what you suggested.

Mike

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I usually do sort of use a hack to see points from shp files.
>
> I select all and then give them all a tag that renders so you can see the
> points like place=locality.
>
> You might need to change the key for the name field to 'name'
>
> And of course depending on how many you have that might be too large of an
> icon.
>
> You can also create a custom mapCSS file to render them more to your
> liking based on the key=values they already have.
>
> And I am sure there is probably a better way than either of those two as
> well.
>
> Cheers
> blake
>
>
>
> On 9/29/2015 10:44 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>> I would like to open a shapefile in JOSM for use as reference when
>> manually editing (I am not doing an import). Using the Opendata plugin I
>> can do this, but I can't figure out how to change the rendering and
>> labeling.  I don't need anything fancy, just a larger/brighter symbol
>> (it is a point file) with the names from the shapefile labels.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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