OpenStreetMap
Still trying to understand how to place small village nodes
Skrive av Rogerdodger 24 juli 2010 på EnglishI'm still trying to understand how to place small villages and small clusters of buildings in very remote areas of northern India. The satellite detail in yahoo isnt good enough to accurately place them. I have GPS waypoints of them, but taking those coordinates doesn't seem to help me in OSM since it doesn't have coordinates to reference..or does it? Any help. Please dont reply with "oh its easy just read the wiki" ive done that and I cant find anything to help. I need info in very easy to understand language not computer speak.
thanks
rog
Discussion
Kommentar frå lyx, 24 juli 2010 kl. 07:47
If you use josm as editor you can read a gpx file with your waypoints, then draw a node where your waypoint is displayed.
Kommentar frå Rogerdodger, 24 juli 2010 kl. 08:10
Ahh, I'll try downloading that again, but my internet here in India is deadly slow and last time I had no chance of downloading it. Is that the only way to draw the node?
Kommentar frå andygates, 24 juli 2010 kl. 08:11
We have lots of small villages and clusters here in Devon. I use a lot of place=hamlet tags, either at the centre of density of the cluster, or at an obvious point on a road.
Some of these are really extended farmsteads (down here they used to be called "Bartons"), and some are really regions of villages, where that just isn't obvious to the eye. But it's better to have a tag with the name in place than to omit the tag for fear of being incorrect. :)
Kommentar frå lyx, 24 juli 2010 kl. 08:27
I'm sure there are other ways to draw nodes at the location given by waypoints, but I don't know them :-) Using josm is just the way I do it.
Kommentar frå Richard, 24 juli 2010 kl. 09:07
In Potlatch (the online editor) you can press 'L' to see the co-ordinates at the mouse pointer. There is no way to directly enter a co-ordinate.
If you have a GPX file with your waypoints _and_ at least one trackpoint, you can upload this to OSM. Then find it in the 'GPS Traces' listing and click 'edit' next to it (not the Edit tab at the top). Your waypoints will be imported as 'locked' points which you can edit, unlock and upload.
Kommentar frå hkucharek, 24 juli 2010 kl. 14:16
Especially when you have deadly slow internet, you should try get JOSM. It may be a one time pain to download, but then you can do most work offline.
Kommentar frå Rogerdodger, 24 juli 2010 kl. 17:08
Thats a good tip on the Potlatch Rochard, thanks. I managed to download the JOSM and wow its like Ive stepped into the matrix and everything is clear to me now! its awesome.