I have added a new operation on the JOSM Edit menu: Paste Tags (CTRL+SHIFT+V). This will be in tomorrow's build.
This applies to the current selection the tags of the items previously copied to the paste buffer with Edit > Copy. Only tags for items of like types are assigned, so selected nodes will take on tags of nodes in the paste buffer, selected ways of copied ways and selected relations of copied relations. (When you Copy a way, its nodes are also copied - or you wouldn't be able to Paste it - so if any nodes are selected for Paste Tags, the tags of the original way's nodes will be applied to the selected nodes). Paste Tags will overwrite tags with the same key in the target selection, but you can't Paste Tags if there is ambiguity in what you would paste (e.g. you have copied two ways with different names). created_by is always ignored. Tags already applied to the target objects are unaffected except when they have the same keys as the source objects. Note also that Edit > Copy makes a deep copy of the items, so changing the tags of the source of a previously copied item will not change what tags are pasted (or indeed what objects are pasted with Edit > Paste) David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
