[OSM-talk] JOSM and shapefile rendering

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Wed Sep 30 15:34:50 UTC 2015


I haven't tried this with a shapefile but I set my inactive color to a
bright green, #00ff00. Very easy to trace an object in the background.

Clifford

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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