On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Isaac Wingfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2010, at 4:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Isaac Wingfield <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I did that. The two ways are still separate (they do not highlight at the >>> same time when one is selected, as I expect they should). Will they >>> "become >>> one" at some future time when the server figures it out? >> >> They will remain separate and independently selectable. So what you >> see now is the expected behaviour. > > Expected, huh? Perhaps, but not very functional. I certainly would "expect" > all of the elements of a single street to be selected when any part is > clicked on -- especially when they are as physically close as these are. I > would modestly suggest that OSM's definition of a "way" is a bit too > restrictive to properly handle the real world. > > Anyhow, thanks for telling me that's how it is. > > Isaac > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
I think the problem is that if all the elements of a single street or way were selected when a single part were clicked on, some "streets"- like an interstate highway, or the Trans-Siberian Railway- would be objects much too enormous to select conveniently. So we edit them in segments. I do think there's a way to select all the segments of a particular way, but I am too much of a newbie to direct you to it, and it's not the default. You can merge segments of a given way if it's too chopped up. I'm sure this isn't the best way, but the way I do that in potlatch is to select one of the ways, delete the last point in it (the overlapping one), and then shift-click on the last point of the second way to merge them. -Aspen (eulochon) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
