Since JOSM implemented object filtering I've been trying on and off to figure out how to make admin boundaries disappear 99% of the time when they aren't also tagged as highway, waterway, natural, railway or other similar tags, I finally got annoyed enough to email the dev list about this and even then it ultimately took a brief moment of inspiration to finally figure this out.
When you go to add a new filter, just paste in the following: boundary=administrative -(highway=* | waterway=* | natural=* | railway=*) type:way If there are other common keys shared with admin boundaries you just add them to the section inside the brackets, from there you can tick the box under the 'H' column (for hide), and from then on the only admin boundaries you will see will be those that are merged with roads etc. If you want to de-merge the roads etc from admin boundaries it's usually a trivial matter of copying the section and pasting it, and then slightly offseting the admin boundary and striping any additional tags and then linking the newly pasted object into the road network or what not. I've also documented this, on the ever growing page of tagging tips: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Hiding_admin_boundaries_in_JOSM _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
