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 _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev