On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Chris Browet <[email protected]> wrote:
> It depends of what are the id's in the osm file. Looks like the feature IDs are all negative in the GeoBase file. > You can always select the osm features and do a "Force Upload", which will > make them "dirty" and allow you to upload them. > Now, if the feature id's are positive, Merkaartor will assume those are osm > id's (from an extract of some sort) and try to UPDATE the features (rather > than add them), which is maybe not whay you want and will fail if the id are > not in the database (or worse, exists but are not the same features; makes > me think I should somehow check that...) > If the id's are negative, Merkaartor will consider them as new features and > properly add them to the osm database. Ooh, sounds like a recipe for disaster! > If the id's are positive in your input file and not related to existing > features, then the way you describe is the only one I can think of, as doing > the paste actually creates new id's, which are properly ADDed to OSM. I think I'll stick with selecting the features on from the GeoBase file and copy them to the OSM layer. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of flipping between selected layers and such to find the differences, and then copy them to the OSM layer. I'm going to have to play with opacity settings and such as well. Thanks again for a great tool... still figuring out how to use it properly for raw data input, but for finding features by attribute, bulk changes to features, and this type of copy and paste editing, it's top notch! James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
