Re: [josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

2012-05-02 Thread David Earl
On 02/05/2012 03:01, Russ Nelson wrote: About once a month I need to move an entire way. I don't understand the use case for this feature. Can somebody (preferably somebody who uses it every day) explain it to me? I use it all the time (though I too get hit by accidental moves a lot as well -

Re: [josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

2012-04-30 Thread David Earl
On 30/04/2012 18:00, Dirk Stöcker wrote: The D key removal was actually requested, as too many people accidentially deleted stuff. Absolutely - hugely better, thank you! The problem was it was right next to the S key so you ended up deleting stuff instead of selecting it. I was used to

[josm-dev] area too big

2012-01-11 Thread David Earl
I got an area too big message doing Update data in JOSM on the eighth of eight areas in the file (or at least, it was at the end - maybe the message applied to one of the intermediate ones, but if so it didn't say so until the end). Presumably the density of nodes in that area has gone over

Re: [josm-dev] Use of mixed map datum in my GPSr and JOSM

2011-09-29 Thread David Earl
On Thursday, 29 September 2011, Bob Hawkins bobhawk...@waitrose.com wrote: I live in Great Britain and use Ordnance Survey British National Grid and map datum in my GPSr for compatibility with my printed map when walking. I use Mercator projection in JOSM because of its portrayal of rectangular

Re: [josm-dev] Question about audio file mapping/synchronization

2010-10-24 Thread David Earl
Hi, I'm the original author of the audio code. I've had a look at what's there now, and the GPX reading code has changed quite a lot since I looked at it, but it seems to me like it is not associating links with trackpoints any more. But also trackpoints and waypoints are handled by the same

Re: [josm-dev] Question about audio file mapping/synchronization

2010-10-24 Thread David Earl
On Sunday, October 24, 2010, activityworkshop m...@activityworkshop.net wrote: @David Earl: Providing the Modified times of audio files preference is on, when you Import Audio by right clicking on a GPX layer you can select multiple files and it will put audio buttons at the times for each

Re: [josm-dev] Register for keys/shortcuts

2010-09-15 Thread David Earl
On 15/09/2010 11:53, Matthias Meißer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm still working on the Videomapping Plugin and it seems to work. But there is still a problem with the shortcuts: I register them by passing it to my JosmAction for the menu entry: VStart = new JosmAction(tr(play/pause), audio-playpause,

Re: [josm-dev] Please invest some time into documentation - especially confilict resolution

2009-10-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/10/2009 10:18, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Till now I was not able to convince one single person to really update JOSM online docs (with more than typos), so it seems doing that work is not worth the effort. I documented the whole of Audio mapping in detail for the JOSM help (and in passing

Re: [josm-dev] Please invest some time into documentation - especially confilict resolution

2009-10-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/10/2009 18:39, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Josm Docu isn't really important. most functions are self explaining. Absolute nonsense. Just look at the comments new people make - they are overwhelmed and confused by JOSM. It's only self explaining if either you already know what you're doing

Re: [josm-dev] Audio markers based on modified times (time stamps) of audio files

2009-06-29 Thread David Earl
Roy Wallace wrote: Hi, I have a question about the current state of audio mapping in JOSM. I want to create several separate wav file recordings, and use the *modified times *of the wav files to associate them with the correct places in the gpx track - in the same way as photo mapping is

[josm-dev] missing resource building JOSM

2009-06-29 Thread David Earl
I'm trying to build JOSM (with Eclipse) for the first time in a while. I'm getting the following error (after I'd fixed gettext-commons version in the project definition, which was out of date). Is there some external dependency I'm not aware of? Or what gives? I don't have a tools directory

Re: [josm-dev] Missing ways and additional conflicts

2009-06-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/06/2009 19:43, Lennard wrote: Peter Herison wrote: Confirmed. I only saw a difference in the last digit of one coordinate in the conflict-list. JOSM V1609 1609 is five weeks old. A lot of bugfixes have gone in relating to API 0.6, conflict detection and resolution. I was using

Re: [josm-dev] Commit message not empty

2009-04-22 Thread David Earl
On 22/04/2009 14:44, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am surprised that it requires explanation. Can you imagine the usefulness of http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets without descriptions? Nobody is arguing

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/03/2009 17:58, Dirk Stöcker wrote: Press ESCAPE the whole time like you did for shift. Using ESCAPE as a modifier is very unconventional. Pressing it and releasing it first has a very different feel to using a key as a modifier. I think the use to which the shift has been usurped is

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:24, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Stefan Breunig wrote: Try double clicking. Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Indeed. AFAICS shift is unused now. Remember Habit gets built into the fingers, changing it arbitrarily is not a good thing to

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:34, David Earl wrote: On 09/03/2009 11:24, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Stefan Breunig wrote: Try double clicking. Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Indeed. AFAICS shift is unused now. Remember Oops, half finished paragraph. I was going

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:40, Stefan Breunig wrote: Would we lose anything by simply reinstating the old shift behaviour? Shift now prevents JOSM from re-using nodes, but still inserts nodes into existing ways. Old way to deal with this was to zoom in so the snap distance would be too large, then

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:42, Stefan Breunig wrote: create a node ready for extension when in open space, and select a node ready for extension when shift+click near a node. A normal click does just that. Pressing Shift was superfluous even before the change got checked in. There was a time when it

Re: [josm-dev] Add nodes functionality changed?

2009-03-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/03/2009 11:54, David Earl wrote: I don't really get what you're taking about with how you've switched SHIFT to something else. Can you illustrate it some how. My feeling from your description is that if you're nowt zoomed in far enough to distinguish things, you probably don't know

Re: [josm-dev] Bug #973 Problem with AudioMarker

2008-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2008 10:18, Dirk Stöcker wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Christoph Seitz wrote: but I'm not sure, whether this solution is good solution. And I think, the hole thing with the audio markers should be a bit more clear. Well, that's a true word :-) E.g. I had a short wav file which

Re: [josm-dev] New OSM download plugin

2008-09-02 Thread David Earl
On 02/09/2008 18:19, Henrik Niehaus wrote: To make this process easier, I wrote a plugin, which downloads the data of the current visible bounding box. You can scroll to the desired place and then start the plugin. But isn't that what happens anyway if you just press OK without putting

Re: [josm-dev] Strange compilation errors in Eclipse

2008-08-24 Thread David Earl
On 24/08/2008 02:28, Brent Easton wrote: Hi Rainer, It is a strange Eclipse bug that has been reported several times in this forum before. Comment out the offending lines containing the marktr lines and save the file. Don't worry if this causes other compile errors. Uncomment the

Re: [josm-dev] Thoughts for further step to modeless operation in JOSM

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 19:34, Gervase Markham wrote: David Earl wrote: The two threads of recent days, in particular about the cross to add a new node, are expressing an underlying frustration about the remaining modes in JOSM. The cross is a bit of a hack to work round this. Can we do more to get

Re: [josm-dev] Validator

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 20/08/2008 10:24, Dermot McNally wrote: Layers exist to determine the drawing order of overlapping elements, nothing more. ... which rather violates the don't tag for the renderer maxim, yes? There's a few cases where it can't be avoided, like where a bridge goes over another bridge in a

Re: [josm-dev] Paste onto mouse pointer position

2008-08-20 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 10:15, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:04:44 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/08/2008 09:54, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:45:34 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I didn't, but maybe it didn't go through the mailing list

Re: [josm-dev] Paste onto mouse pointer position

2008-08-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/08/2008 09:54, Petr Dlouhý wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:45:34 +0200, David Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/08/2008 09:18, Petr Dlouhý wrote: Hello, I made improvement to paste (and by consequence also to duplicate) function in JOSM. Now, it is pasting the object

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 14:13, Maarten Deen wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:01:09PM +0100, David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2008 13:18, Maarten Deen wrote: This also circumvents the half broken option of placing nodes with SHIFT-CLICK (half broken because it always adds a segment to the node you placed

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 18:31, Maarten Deen wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: There is the catch. Shift-Click and a node without a segment is created. Release the shift and the segment is created. The only way to create a node without a segment is to created two nodes. Then the first is created without

Re: [josm-dev] Bug 595 - Virtual nodes - Comments requested

2008-08-18 Thread David Earl
On 18/08/2008 23:14, Maarten Deen wrote: David Earl wrote: On 18/08/2008 18:31, Maarten Deen wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: There is the catch. Shift-Click and a node without a segment is created. Release the shift and the segment is created. The only way to create a node without

Re: [josm-dev] add node to split up way?

2008-08-12 Thread David Earl
On 12/08/2008 12:31, Maarten Deen wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:26:50PM +0200, Tobias Wendorff wrote: I'm missing one important function in JOSM: Add Node! In CAD-software and other GIS-editors, you can add nodes to existing ways in order to split them up. Is this really a missing

Re: [josm-dev] downloading data along a gpx track

2008-07-12 Thread David Earl
On 11/07/2008 20:43, mariner wrote: Hi there, There is one feature I am really missing in JOSM. It's the ability to donwload the data of OSM near a gpx track. I would like to place a feature request here on the list. You can fill in a request in the Trac system, here:

[josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node in a blank area, or (b) add a new node in an existing way, or (c) select an existing node in the middle of a way, or (d) select an existing node at the end of a way and then

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
Indeed AFAICS it is a one line change to remove the test if (selection.isEmpty()) { On 19/05/2008 15:55, David Earl wrote: At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node in a blank area, or (b) add a new node

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/05/2008 16:01, David Earl wrote: Indeed AFAICS it is a one line change to remove the test if (selection.isEmpty()) { On 19/05/2008 15:55, David Earl wrote: At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to (a) add a new node

Re: [josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

2008-05-19 Thread David Earl
On 19/05/2008 16:33, David Earl wrote: Sorry, one more thing. I know that ALT does this, but _that_ only works when a way _is_ selected. I can't see any reason why that also shouldn't work when a way isn't selected. I was getting confused with a version I'd hacked to try it out. ALT doesn't

[josm-dev] Dynamic start up message

2008-05-08 Thread David Earl
I've released a change that I mentioned I was going to do some time ago whereby the JOSM startup screen content is dynamic rather than built in to the program. Once people get this or later versions of JOSM (and everyone will presumably get a new one when API0.6 arrives) it will be possible to

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM audio difficulty

2008-03-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/03/2008 20:00, Chris Morley wrote: The gpx file is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Chris%20Morley/traces/80947 I extracted the fist 5 minutes of the wav file: http://www.gaseq.co.uk/OSM/20080227afivemins.wav (not a great example of an audio track) This plays in JOSM, but without

Re: [josm-dev] Audio user interface

2008-02-29 Thread David Earl
On 29/02/2008 10:02, Chris Morley wrote: Synchronization by dragging the play head could also involve moving into the regions before and after the audio and so it is necessary for the process to be an atomic one to avoid the error message. That is, you cannot easily use an additional action

Re: [josm-dev] Changes to fix accidental moving

2008-01-25 Thread David Earl
On 25/01/2008 16:46, Gervase Markham wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: I can't think of an application that does drag-select with shift only... it's always the mouse without modifiers that selects something (and deselects what you had before), while the shift-mouse adds to a selection. Initial

Re: [josm-dev] JOSM mini-roadmap anyone?

2008-01-23 Thread David Earl
On 23/01/2008 01:32, Frederik Ramm wrote: My personal impression is that we'll first have to address the accidental moving problem (what would be the best way you reckon?), I haven't had any problems with this at all since you put the delay parameter in and I was able to increase it from your