I'm feeling thick today. How do I break it into ways? This isn't my top priority at the moment I'm busy putting names on unnamed streets.
Thanks John On 30 July 2010 04:36, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com> wrote: > With both halfes of the building polygons loaded into osm, break apart > both polygons into ways, and remove both of the ways that are in the > middle of the polygon, > then merge the ways back into a closed polygon, it might require > reversing the direction of one of the ways. > > > this retains the geogetry and merges the 2 adjacent polygons into one. > > > cheers, > sam > > On 7/30/10, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well I now know a little more about JOSM and Validator but I still >> haven't quite worked out how to merge the two parts of the building. >> >> Thanks John >> >> On 29 July 2010 21:35, Tyler Gunn <ty...@egunn.com> wrote: >>> If you draw a selection box over where the two tiles meet and run the >>> validator in Josm one of the errors it can report is "duplicate nodes". >>> When you are merging tiles where roads and areas are split between the >>> tiles there is a copy of all nodes on the "border" between the tiles in >>> each file. Josm Recognizes this and can merge the nodes from both tiles >>> so there are no duplicates. >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhon >>> >>> On 2010-07-29, at 7:56 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Sounds simple but Shift-J doesn't seem to do anything, they don't >>>> quite overlap. What is a duplicate node error and how do I fix it? >>>> >>>> Thanks John >>>> >>>>> - Select the data all along the boundaries of the tile. >>>>> - Use the JOSM Validator on the selection. >>>>> - Fix all the duplicate node errors. >>>>> - Select both ways that make up the building/area (ie shift-click on >>>>> both >>>>> parts of the building) and hit SHIFT-J to execute the "Join overlapping >>>>> areas" >>>>> - Voila! >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > -- > Twitter: @Acrosscanada > Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ > http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans > Skype: samvekemans > IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) > @Acrosscanadatrails > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca