Hello Martin, hello Stephan,
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:38:36AM +0100, Stephan Knauss wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > another selection-feature I'm missing quite often (maybe it is already
> > there and I don't know how to use it) is the use of the
> > selection-rectangle to select ways but not nodes. Currently if you
> > select by rectangle you will only select nodes, and ways completely
> > surrounded. The selection I am talking about would select all ways
> > intersected or completely within the selection rectangle, but not the
> > contained nodes.
>
> I also don't know whether thnere is a more direct way or not. In case I
> need to select a bunch of ways I do like this:
>
> 1) Use rectangle to select area containing all desired ways (including
> all nodes. Hold alt-key to select ways that have nodes inside selection)
> 2) use search feature to search for "type:node" and remove from selection
> 3) in case selection contains relations, repeat step 2 with relations
What I have done is select the area (or all objects) and then search for
type:way in the selection. That can be combined with other attributes,
such as "type:way highway=primary".
Marko
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