Hi Yves, On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:01:16PM +0100, Yves Goergen wrote: > > 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? >
Did you select both the way to split and the node? That works fine for me, though in the SVN version. > > 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. > I would be interested in that feature, too. > > 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. > I worked around such problems by reducing the track using gpsbabel before loading it into Merkaartor: $ gpsbabel -i gpx -f yourtrack.gpx -x simplify,count=500 -o gpx -F reduced.gpx Then, depending on the "count" argument, you get some space between the individual GPS trackpoints. > > 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. > The above reduction of GPS trackpoints also helps (a bit) with the problem that GPS trackpoints are magnetic. IMHO they shouldn't, but I faintly remember that there was already a thread on this list about this topic. cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
