Is it possible to edit a subset of the objects in JOSM and hide the objects not belonging to this subset?
Examples use cases:
- while editing landuse areas, details like streets, POIs, buildings, etc should not be editable to avoid unwanted changes.
- while editing buildings no landuse areas should be editable to avoid messing up these areas.
- while editing streets no administrative boundary should be editable.
Typical modes / filters for editing, I would like to see:
- all for all details
- details for mapping buildings, amenities, POIs, ...
- roads for mapping streets, ways, paths, ...
- country for mapping landuse areas, water, ...
- boundary for mapping administrative and other kinds of boundaries
asked 26 May '11, 21:50
mmehl
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panel to add filter the editable items by tags.
this is the direction I'm looking for:
I found the filter docu, but it seems to be very complicated.
As far as I can see there are no predefined filters. My filters were automatically saved and restored so they persist even if you close and open josm. I don't think you can save a set manually though..
Awesome. I didn't know this trick! Never thought to click the filter icon for some reason.
So I guess one thing to watch out for is, you might still accidentally move ways of the background (filtered out) data, if you move a shared node they're attached to. If shapefile GIS users are expecting separate "layers" within the data, they may be caught out by this. OpenStreetMap data isn't really split into layers.