On Wed, Jul 8, 2009, J.Slee<[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a couple of simple newbie questions: > > 1. Most of the residential roads in my area are not simple lines but > resemble television aerials with lots of off-shoots. > In potlatch I have been drawing a way and tagging it as "residential" > and giving it a name. Then I am selecting a point at each junction and > cutting the way and then extending from a new end-point into the extra > spurs of the way. Is this the best / only way to map such complex ways?
That's one way of doing it. It's not my preference because it creates lots of ways that have right-angle corners in them. I find that the renderers seem to like placing street names on sharp corners which makes them hard to read. I start creating such ways at an end-point that's furthest away from existing ways, then end by clicking over an existing way. In Potlatch clicking on top of an existing way while in drawing mode inserts a node shared by both ways. > 2. I mark way points on my Garmin Edge 705 cycle GPS whenever I get to > letter boxes , bus stops etc but I can't find an easy way to get these > from the way point file into potlatch. Any suggestions welcome. The "Show GPS Tracks" icon (or key press 'G') doesn't show waypoints. View the "Your GPS traces" list and where it says "more / map / edit" click on the "edit" link. Waypoints from that GPS file will now show as orange blobs. You can convert the orange blobs to nodes by clicking the padlock symbol (bottom left). Nick. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
