Sidetracking a bit, but is there a way to select overlaping items in JOSM? On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@dobratz.us> wrote: > > A relatively new user has created a bunch of duplicate Ways around here: > > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.732&lon=-71.49769&zoom=17&layers=M > > > > So far I've had good email exchanges with this new user, and I was about > to > > send him a message about this area, but I'm not sure where to begin. > > Obviously, we don't want a bunch of duplicate objects that represent the > > same thing with almost the same geometry. Looking at the area in > Potlatch > > 2, I can't figure out a way to select just one of the overlapping > objects, > > so I can't even explain to the new user how to clean it up using his > editor > > of choice. Also, I'm confused as to how this happened in the first > place. > > Has anyone else seen something similar to this before? > > > > I can clean it up in JOSM, but I want to get on the same page with the > new > > mapper so that he doesn't keep doing it. > > You can hold down CTRL and drag a box and anything intersecting that > box will be selected. But that won't really help you in this case > either... I guess you just have to zoom in really far. Then it becomes > obvious that there are two ways. > > I wonder if he had problems downloading data from the API. It's like > he got Conant Road downloaded, maybe when he was panned to the west a > little. Then maybe he panned east and was unable to load those > residential streets? That would explain how he has his own connected > network in the area that is connected to Conant Road but nothing else. > I would think it would actually be rather difficult to create a > self-contained network that is so close to existing objects. Potlatch > would tend to snap things to each other so they would be sharing some > nodes. That's my theory. > > Toby > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Dale Puch
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