I went ahead and did it the way I described in my last post. Clumsy but it worked. I've been busy conflating coastline and riverbanks with the boundary, throwing away thousands of unnecessary nodes in the process. I like cleaning house like that but it's a ton of work that most people don't do.
I like your ideas, Kevin, and will try them when I do my next big addition. Removing the outer ring is a clever approach. I have separated all the National Wildlife Refuge shapefiles into their own folders so it's no biggie if I "wreck" one to isolate the inners. I selected my inners after doing the Paste at Source Location step by searching in JOSM for "type:way untagged new" as I described earlier but I did not unselect the nodes as you recommend. Is that necessary and if so, why? I tried another thing in my experimenting with those selections. There is a button in the middle panel of Relation Editor that Selects objects. It's the second from the bottom and the mouseover hint says: "Select objects for selected relation members". In the leftmost panel I selected all the inners from the shapefile relation in the shapefile layer (click on topmost, [Shift] click on the last), clicked that button which moved them to the right-hand pane and when I exited the Relation Editor those objects appeared in JOSM's "Selection" panel. I cannot remember now if I was able to copy and use them in my data layer but that button is interesting. Do you or anyone else know how to use it? Dave PS: I live in fear of "losing the selection" LOL. Every time I tried to transfer these blasted inners I lost the selection, which is why I resorted to the JOSM search. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:47 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:54 AM Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Someone added the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to OSM but did not add >> a bunch of inner areas that aren't part of the refuge. I have the inners in >> a shapefile that end up in a separate layer when I import them into JOSM. I >> would like to add those inners to the existing boundary of the refuge. How >> can I transfer those inners from the shape layer to my data layer? >> >> I've tried everything I can think of, including the special paste >> function inside the Relation Toolbox I learned about recently, but cannot >> get them to transfer *en masse*. I can copy and paste them one at a time >> but there are a few dozen tiny parcels. I also tried pasting them in place >> and then using JOSM's Search function to select "type:way untagged new" and >> that worked but it's clumsy. >> There must be a better way to do this. >> > > If you have just the one multipolygon in the shapefile, or you have just > the inners in the shapefile, it's pretty easy. > > Import the shapefile into JOSM. Yes, it comes in as a new layer. > > Select the inner rings by whatever means. One possibility is to delete > the outer ring (just don't save the shapefile again, or save it under a new > name before you start so that you can throw it away) and then 'Select All' > followed by 'Select->Unselect Nodes' (Shift+U). Copy the inner ways > (Ctrl+C). > > Switch to the OSM layer and do Ctrl+Alt+V (Paste at Source Location). > > You now have your newly pasted items selected. Bring up the relation > editor on your relation, and you'll see the selected items in the > right-hand column. Use the 'insert at the bottom' button in the middle bar > to bring them over. into the relation. > > Now they're in the left-hand column, and still selected. Type 'inner' in > the 'role' prompt at the bottom and hit the check mark. Now they're all > inner ways. > > If you're afraid of losing the selection, add some tag like 'dave=1' to > the items before you copy-n-paste, and then the Search dialog can find them > easily. (Don't forget to delete the tag when you're done!) > > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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