Hello, today was my first day outside with my GPS logger in one hand and the camera in the other hand. I walked through my home village to improve the map of it. Back at home, I tried to manage to put the data into the map using Merkaartor 0.12 on Windows.
It basically works nicely, opening the GPX track, adding the already geo-tagged photos and downloading the map data to work on. But I did have some problems editing the map. One of them was that I wasn't able to split a road at a node where it would be necessary. The way existed before, but it actually has different names in different parts of it. I cannot just drop a node and re-add it because there's another two roads hanging on it. So how's this supposed to work? Should I select a node and call "Road,Split"? This has worked before but the command is disabled in this more complex situation. Is it a known bug or didn't anyone notice it yet? The road to split is way_28769663. The node to split at is node_322637615. I don't know how to tell you where to find them. The node is at "coord: 49.5735 / 11.1640". Merkaartor currently renders it red because of my FIXME note in it. Also, how can I remove a single node from a way without removing the node itself? I.e. making that the node is no longer part of a way. When you move nodes around and drop them on a way, you cannot move them away from there again without dragging the entire way along. Another problem I had was to select a single photo on the track. When I loaded the photo files, I was asked to select a layer to add them to. I selected my GPX track, as it was obvious and there was no further indication what to do. The photos then appeared as small rectangles on the track. I could select a photo by clicking on it - but with a GPS log interval of 1 second and walking on foot I have very dense GPS points and it often occured that selecting a photo was not possible at maximum zoom level. Sometimes, the photo could be selected and displayed by clicking several times around the icon. It's very hard to impossible to work with photos in Merkaartor this way. Yet another annoyance was that moving a node of a road near the GPX track would snap it to a single GPX point if I came it too near. But often the single GPX points are a bit off and I want to smoothen the way. That's not so easy with the GPX layer visible. But with the layer hidden, I'm walking in the "dark" with my nodes and ways. Even worse is that when creating a new road, clicking on a GPX point, its name is added to the way node by default. This name is like "TP12345". I need to remove all those names again because the entire way is going to be named like a street, not single nodes like garbage. I'm new here, so I hope I'm not doing wrong too much. I hope to help the further development of this great application with my beginner's experiences and reports. I've tried JOSM but I think it's entirely confusing. Complicated to setup (Merkaartor works out of the (installation) box) and there's only lines that don't even look like a map. Potlatch isn't nearly as powerful as required for serious map editing. May be good for quick edits but not entire villages from GPS and photos. So Merkaartor is my only way to this and I'm looking forward to even better future versions. :) -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[email protected]> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
