[OSM-talk] JOSM and shapefile rendering

[Mike Thompson]

Cliff,

Thanks!  Another good tip.

Mike

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

> 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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