Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Toby Murray
If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to be some features added to support it. By default historical data should obviously not be rendered but it also shouldn't even show up in editors unless you explicitly specify it via some option. Otherwise new mappers are going to

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 June 2010 16:11, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to be some features added to support it. By default historical data should obviously not be rendered but it also shouldn't even show up in By default things should

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to be some features added to support it. That would actually be pretty easy to add in any renderer, if a proposal was made for a tag like status=historic

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: John Smith wrote: On 20 June 2010 17:07, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S.m...@swavely.com wrote: Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 21 June 2010 11:32, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: One big problem with any 4th dimensional idea is plate tectonics. I'm willing to bet that if you were to map how London was before the great fire of 1666, the coordinates of places won't match their current locations in

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Hill
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: One big problem with any 4th dimensional idea is plate tectonics. I'm willing to bet that if you were to map how London was before the great fire of 1666, the coordinates of places won't match their current locations in WGS84 coordinates. And exactly how do you

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 June 2010 21:03, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: And exactly how do you propose that we get accurate coordinates for the positions of streets in 1665 other using a modern surveyed overlay? I don't think Samuel Pepys supplemented his diary with GPS derived WGS84 coordinates. :-)

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Sender: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:32:00 To: Lester Caineles...@lsces.co.uk Cc: OSM Talktalk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-21 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com wrote: If historical data is really desired then it seems like there need to be some features added to support it. That would actually be pretty easy to add in any

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S. m...@swavely.com wrote: Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways Oh? Could you elaborate? Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 17:07, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S. m...@swavely.com wrote: Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways Oh? Could you elaborate? Some people would like to be able to map the 4th dimension

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
John Smith wrote: On 20 June 2010 17:07, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alex S.m...@swavely.com wrote: Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways Oh? Could you elaborate? Some people would like to be able to map the

[OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-17 Thread John F. Eldredge
While updating the streets in my neighborhood (mostly correcting misaligned TIGER imports to match Yahoo's aerial views), I found a short street that needs to be removed from the map. It has been closed to traffic for decades, and the pavement has now been removed and replaced by a commercial

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
shift+backspace/delete. This is to prevent you hitting delete and deleting the way accidentally. Shaun On 17 Jun 2010, at 22:34, John F. Eldredge wrote: While updating the streets in my neighborhood (mostly correcting misaligned TIGER imports to match Yahoo's aerial views), I found a short

Re: [OSM-talk] Removing ways in Potlatch

2010-06-17 Thread Alex S.
John F. Eldredge wrote: How can I remove this short and no-longer-existing street using Potlatch? Some would like to see it kept and marked historical, but deleting ways in Potlatch is easy: select the way, then select an end node and delete until all way nodes are gone (shared nodes in