Holger Mappt writes:
> If we never ask for confirmations then you would be able to quit JOSM
> while it has modified data.
Indeed, and you'll get the notice about having modified data before
JOSM quits.
The whole point of this is to avoid the "oh crap I just discarded my
edits" moment. When
Never ask for confirmations. It's never the right thing to do unless
you're very short of resources, which we never are these days.
Instead, provide an undo of a layer delete. When they ask to delete a
layer that has changes in it, simply delete it, and pop up a
non-confirmation notice that says
Frederik Ramm writes:
Sure, even nicer to get encouraging emails from others in the project
but how likely is that?
I've done it. Follow #osm-us, look for users in NY (just to limit the
quantity and so there's some hope of my having been in the town where
the edit was), review the edit, and
Maarten Deen writes:
On 2013-06-14 12:53, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
at the FOSSGIS conference, someone said in a presentation that the
user experience in OSM could be improved if the editor were to give a
simple thank you message after you have uploaded something. Thank
yo
kristy van putten writes:
This is my first time on this list, so apologies if I am asking the same
question as someone else. I have a team of GIS people digitising in
OpenStreetMap and we have found that there is no imagery for a section of
the area we really need to digitise. I have got
Alan Mintz writes:
I don't use it every day, but those who draw buildings do (or should). Draw
the roof of a tall building. Drag (usually somewhat diagonally) the whole
(closed) way to move it to the correct ground position, based on whichever
corner is visible at ground level.
A,
Dirk Stöcker writes:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
is also not planned I think). There's just one big annoyance
introduced: the key for delete mode. This now is impossible to select
with just one hand, so you have to get the other hand off the mouse
which really
Toby Murray writes:
Partially because of this I tend to just use the w mode to move
nodes that are part of a way.
OH YEAH BABY! 'w' mode is the cat's meow. Kudos to everybody who
worked on that. I do most of my editing in 'w' mode now.
But I do get hit by this every once in a while and
Kate Chapman writes:
Hey All,
When drawing ways there is no longer a line between the last point
drawn and the mouse cursor. I found this useful in being able to
follow where things connected as I drew.
Is this a bug or intentional? If a bug I will happily fill out a
ticket, I
Pieren writes:
I don't think it is a good idea. As the relation is called, all
addresses between start and end are just ... interpolation.
We've had this discussion before. Here in my part of the USA, street
addresses were renumbered for the convenience of the fire, police, and
rescue squads.
hbogner writes:
We who use it for years know what to do, but new useras are confused.
I agree. What might work for better nannying is to only run the
validator on things they've changed. Otherwise they get asked to fix
everything within the bounding box they downloaded.
Even better than that
Dirk Stöcker writes:
So a note to these of you trying to convince me that we have a major
problem with validator: This opinion does not match the statistical data
that we have. Especially as validator had 80% installation count
even before it moved into core.
Not valid data because
Ian Dees writes:
Hi JOSM Devs,
I'd like to implement a feature in JOSM that applies the tags from the
clipboard to every new way or node created. I think this would be useful for
creating powerlines (apply power=tower to every new node in the way) or for
a set of buildings along a
Frederik Ramm writes:
I'd like to implement a feature in JOSM that applies the tags from the
clipboard to every new way or node created. I think this would be
useful for creating powerlines (apply power=tower to every new node
in the way) or for a set of buildings along a street
Stephan Knauss writes:
On 01.12.2010 12:26, Sebastian Klein wrote:
thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in
JOSM.
great job, thanks to Ian for the fast response.
I really like the fast loading speed of the tiles compared to WMS
solutions. In
Hey! It's been over a year since I last used Geotagged Images, and I'm
VERY impressed. The user interface has pretty much everything I want
in it. It has an automatic guess, manual tuning, and time-from-photo.
Well done!
Now ... if only we could get it to OCR the image, look for the word
Garmin
activityworkshop writes:
If I convert them to waypoints in Prune and then re-export the gpx
file, then JOSM shows the audio files properly.
That's my experience. I wrote a converter from Columbus voice record's
whack data format (BOTH CSV AND columnular data, using nulls to pad)
to GPS
What abouut this design, selected to habituate, pace Jef Raskin?
Have shift-P start an incremental search through the keys, values,
synonyms, and descriptions. With every key you type, it shows you the
first ten ones that match. If you then type a digit corresponding to
one of the matches, it
Frederik Ramm writes:
I am however wary at how people seem to use the remote control plugin
for more and more stuff... where will it end? A special request where
you can send some Java code to JOSM and it will execute that ;)?
Every program expands until it can send email. JOSM?? Not
Sebastian Klein writes:
who is managing the mailing list? I would appreciate, if mails sent to
the list would have
Reply-To: josm-dev@openstreetmap.org
in the header. This way you can answer more easily to the list.
Sigh. http://russnelson.com/rt.html
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Paul Johnson writes:
Ctrl-= doesn't do anything, and ctrl-shift-= (to get a plus) doesn't
work. Ctrl-- works, but that only zooms me out.
For whatever reason, it has to be Ctrl-KP+ even though Ctrl-- also
works.
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Keypad+ and Keypad- zoom in and out. Whether that's easy or not is
another question.
Shaun McDonald writes:
Heh, this has just come up as a usability issue discussion at SOTM, as there
is no way to be able to be able to easily zoom without a scroll wheel.
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Matthias Julius writes:
I am not saying we should hold development until all translations are
complete. I would just like to give translators a chance to get their
translation into a released JOSM.
JOSM has never been released.
Or, to put it another way, the JOSM release process is
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
I think JOSM's release process is awesome. Projects like JOSM that do
monthly releases tend to constantly keep the code in what's basically
a ready-to-release state. I actually don't use the releases, I just
track trunk.
And how was trunk for you when undo
Hi. My Internet connection is very unreliable lately. The leaves
have come back on the trees and they're now tall enough to seriously
interfere with my wifi connection. That hasn't stopped me from
wanting to edit OSM, of course. Unfortunately, JOSM's behavior in the
face of an unreliable
Richard Fairhurst writes:
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
what a great idea, i have considered this as well. it would be a welcome
replacement for potlatch
What do you mean, replacement?
Channelling FakeSteveC, I've finally decided to ban Potlatch, but we
want to keep the
andrzej zaborowski writes:
2009/12/29 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com:
Is JOSM's Changeset support not quite right?
I'm thinking that the way it should work instead is NOT close
Changesets ever. Instead, it should keep (all) the changeset(s) open,
and if you make another edit
Is JOSM's Changeset support not quite right?
I'm thinking that the way it should work instead is NOT close
Changesets ever. Instead, it should keep (all) the changeset(s) open,
and if you make another edit which is within the bounding box of an
open changeset, it should default to adding it to
Dave Hansen writes:
So, I went and implemented it. I call it QuadBuckets, and it's basically an
unbalanced 4-way radix tree structure.
Well done, Dave!
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Why does JOSM now prompt me to save something which I've already
uploaded, even though it was never saved in the past?
Seems to me that this new change solves a problem I wasn't
experiencing. Here's how I think it should work, which is how it used
to work (as far as I know):
0) If I load a
Is it just me, or has WMS not been working lately? Can anyone report
success?
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Michael Kugelmann writes:
But after deleting my old preferences and some minor tweaking
at the parameters and the configuration it now works very fine again, I
think, that the problems I had were caused by a very big step in
updating the used versions of JOSM and plugins.
That's the
Dirk Stöcker writes:
You had IP 127.0.0.1 and thus the same as the spammer who tried to fill
the Trac yesterday.
GAH! I say you should ping-flood him, and if that doesn't bring him
down, hack into his machine and delete all his files.
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Andy Robinson \(blackadder-lists\) writes:
Should perhaps JOSM be able to detect ways with too many nodes and offer to
split them on download? It's very easy to shift a whole way and then end up
needing to upload a huge changeset that bombs on the 2k limit.
YES! JOSM shouldn't let you
Frederik Ramm writes:
I don't, however, see a pressing need to support any and all extended
GPX features.
Actually, JOSM makes a fine GPX editor. Great for removing those
birds nests when you stopped for lunch.
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Cloudmade supports
Henrik Niehaus writes:
No one interested?
Is JAXB a separate library? How does this extra code affect the
portability?
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Henrik Niehaus writes:
Russ Nelson schrieb:
Henrik Niehaus writes:
No one interested?
Is JAXB a separate library? How does this extra code affect the
portability?
If you use Java = 1.5, JAXB is a separate library. Java 1.6 includes a
JAXB implementation
Greg Troxel writes:
I don't actually care which node controls the resulting location, but it
seems obvious the first one added to the selection should be it.
Yup. The nodes seem to get sorted numerically by id. That's correct
for display purposes, but not for the purpose of choosing the
Frederik Ramm writes:
The leave empty if unsure makes it easy for users to ignore the
concept and I don't want to make this easy for them.
I agree with Fred. I also agree with other people who say that it's
annoying. It *is* annoying AND necessary.
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Can we combine and merge Combine and Merge?
Combine: combines ways.
Merge: combines nodes.
If there's no objection, I'll write the patch.
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Can we combine Split Way and UnGlue Ways? They operate on distinct
selections except in the case of having one node selected. Then,
UnGlue Ways creates two nodes, whereas Split Way creates two ways.
This is easily resolved by eliminating the Split Way case -- you have
to say which way you want
Russ Nelson writes:
Can we combine and merge Combine and Merge?
No, I suggest this instead:
Can we combine, join, and merge Combine, Join Node to Way, and Merge?
Combine Way(two or more ways) - combines ways.
Combine Way(two or more ways with any number of node selections
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote:
Can we combine and merge Combine and Merge?
Combine: combines ways.
Merge: combines nodes.
If there's no objection, I'll write the patch.
If you're rewriting this perhaps
Pieren writes:
like to describe my changes but not always. But when I see that I
have to do it, it makes me so angry that I write anything excepted
what I could kindly write otherwise.
Does it make you angry that you have to click in the Upload button to
commit your changes?
OSM has been
So, I found this nifty-neato GPS receiver which will record an audio
file and georeference it: http://community.cloudmade.com/blog/?p=340
I had to write a Python program to turn its goofy pseudo-CSV file into
a proper GPX file which JOSM understands. I can now drag-and-drop
this file into JOSM,
A few improvements to my earlier missing nodes patch:
o Add a missing call to parseDataSetOsm
o Don't report *every* error, just the first five.
Index: src/org/openstreetmap/josm/io/OsmServerObjectReader.java
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Maarten Deen writes:
I just came across something: how do you zoom out on the slippymap download
option when you don't have a mousewheel? E.g. on a laptop?
Get a better laptop?
In the meantime, you can use the Map tab to select a larger area.
Perhaps not the greatest solution, but it works.
Does this construct work correctly in the JOSM Trac system:
[[{Josmimage(download.png)}]]
In theory it goes to the JOSM svn, pulls out images/download.png, and
displays it using img src=whatever/.
I'm trying to edit the Introduction page and insert icons directly
from the source, but not
Russ Nelson writes:
I'm trying to edit the Introduction page and insert icons directly
from the source, but not having any luck.
AHA! Discovered an alternate method for specifying the path to the
image:
[[Image(source:trunk/images/download.png)]]
I'll fix the other two instances
Dirk Stöcker writes:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1712
Incomplete ways are discarded without notice
Could you go ahead and apply the patch in this email?
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2008-December/002293.html
I may never get around to improving it beyond it's
Dirk Stöcker writes:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1712
Incomplete ways are discarded without notice
This is a minimal patch. I didn't want to make too many changes
because somebody else is going to have to read this patch before they
apply it. I don't know Java very well, so if
Dirk Stöcker writes:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1712
Incomplete ways are discarded without notice
What should be done? Throw an exception immediately? Load the way
anyway, ignoring missing points, and throw an exception after
everything has been loaded?
In theory, the semantics of
Dirk Stöcker writes:
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Russ Nelson wrote:
That's exactly the problem. '|' ends up being a string rather than a
token. If somebody checks this in, tell me and I'll restore the docs
Fixed in r1149.
Thanks. I like the way that the Python folks keep
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
* http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1864 - Search doesn't support
regex search on keys and/or values
The problem is always the user interface. I can think of several ways
to implement regexps:
1) just implement them. Instead of doing a liberal substring
Hi. Should | be used to separate two or terms of a search? Or is
OR the only token?
I ask because | is not recognized by the tokenizer as a token, and
yet http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Search_function (used to
until I changed it) claim that | could be used to separate two or
terms of
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:
Just wondering: should I fix the code or leave the documentation fixed?
The code, | should work as OR but doesn't. There's a bug filed for
this (which I didn't find).
Probably mine.
I looked at it for a bit recently but didn't manage to fix it before
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