----- Original Message ----- From: "James Andrewartha" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM
> > 2009/12/8 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> don't know what is avail in potlatch overall >>> a is 'add' mode >>> s is 'select' mode >>> d is 'delete' mode >>> u is unselect >> >> Oh yeah, good old modal editing :) It's like using vim. I found this >> horribly tedious. In potlatch, left-click does everything! (Honestly, I >> much >> prefer Potlatch in this area. But it may be because I use dvorak >> keyboard, >> and a/s/d are not near each other. I tried remapping the keys, didn't >> work >> for some reason.) > > I find Potlatch is better for from-scratch editing, but for editing > existing data JOSM is as good. The modal thing is annoying, but when > there's already ways you can drag the middle + to create a new node in > select mode. The main things I wish JOSM had from Potlatch are to > repeat the tags from the last way (R in Potlatch), and built-in > history instead of opening a web browser. Is the history panel , Alt+Shift+H (or the book icon on the left hand menu), not good enough? David > JOSM's presets are a lot > nicer in that it knows what common keys and values are appropriate, > but being able to just drag the shortcut nodes in Potlatch onto the > map is pretty good too. > >>> m is merge nodes ( a function which i have not found in potlatch) >> >> You can work around it by merging a node and a way, then deleting the >> superfluous node. I don't think you can merge two ways though. > > Ctrl-click in JOSM joins two ways. > >>> there are two other really good ones which are key combos and i use from >>> the menu "orthogonalise shape" > > <AOL /> > > James Andrewartha > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
