On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hansen <d...@sr71.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback - > > there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is > > actually there before you do. > > It would be really nice to add some JOSM layer functionality like this. > I did a simple shp-to-osm, then mucked with JOSM's style files a bit to > get it to show the background (new data) in pink and the foreground > (existing OSM data) in a thick line. It makes isolating data that's > badly lined up or non-existent in OSM easy to find, visually. > > http://daveh.dev.openstreetmap.org/portland/josm-ping.png
I think this is a great first step towards a "merging/importing toolkit". A shapefile reading and rendering plugin for JOSM would be extremely nice to have and was the original intention of my shp-to-osm code. I'd be happy to get the code started but would be excited to have people try it out and offer features.
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