OpenStreetMap
I am on a roll mapping pedestrian crossings (or ‘crosswalks’ as Americans tend to call them.
First I download a sliver of the map that covers a major road in JOSM:
I think you could also use ‘download along way’ in JOSM if the road is not nice and straight, but around here they usually are.
Then I pan along the way and add crossing nodes using Shift-R to quickly copy pedestrian crossing tags from the previous node.
This way I can add about 15 pedestrian crossings a minute.
Discussion
Comment from mtc on 10 August 2016 at 16:10
Could you explain your process of adding node a bit further? I tried unsucessfully to find Shift-R in the JOSM keyboard shortcuts. I would be interested to know your process step by step.
Comment from EdLoach on 10 August 2016 at 16:58
mtc: More Tools, Copy Tags from Previous Selection
Comment from mvexel on 10 August 2016 at 17:25
mtc: Sure! I am in add mode (keyboard
a). Then I click on the way where I want to add the node. A node will be added. Then I hitShift-rto apply the ped crossing tags. Then I hitEscto end this add. (Otherwise you will draw a way.)One thing to keep in mind is that
Shift-rwill repeat the tags of the last selected object, so you have to make sure that you do not select anything else inbetween, or it will copy the tags from that object.Comment from mtc on 12 August 2016 at 00:52
Ahh… after banging my head on the desk for a while, I did a web search for “More Tools” and realized that you have the Utilsplugin2 installed.
Glad that I asked… this plugin seems to add some very interesting functionality.
Thanks for your responses.
Comment from mvexel on 12 August 2016 at 04:48
I don’t know why utilsplugin was not made part of the core a long time ago…