I haven't tried this with a shapefile but I set my inactive color to a bright green, #00ff00. Very easy to trace an object in the background.
Clifford On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Mike Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Blake, > > Thanks for the clever tips. I will try what you suggested. > > Mike > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Blake Girardot <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> I usually do sort of use a hack to see points from shp files. >> >> I select all and then give them all a tag that renders so you can see the >> points like place=locality. >> >> You might need to change the key for the name field to 'name' >> >> And of course depending on how many you have that might be too large of >> an icon. >> >> You can also create a custom mapCSS file to render them more to your >> liking based on the key=values they already have. >> >> And I am sure there is probably a better way than either of those two as >> well. >> >> Cheers >> blake >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2015 10:44 PM, Mike Thompson wrote: >> >>> I would like to open a shapefile in JOSM for use as reference when >>> manually editing (I am not doing an import). Using the Opendata plugin I >>> can do this, but I can't figure out how to change the rendering and >>> labeling. I don't need anything fancy, just a larger/brighter symbol >>> (it is a point file) with the names from the shapefile labels. Any >>> ideas? >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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