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Mapping pedestrian crossings

Publeyêe per mvexel lo 10 August 2016 en English.

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:

sliver

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.

crosswalk-action

This way I can add about 15 pedestrian crossings a minute.

Discussion

Comentèro de mtc lo 10 August 2016 a 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.

Comentèro de EdLoach lo 10 August 2016 a 16:58

mtc: More Tools, Copy Tags from Previous Selection

Comentèro de mvexel lo 10 August 2016 a 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 hit Shift-r to apply the ped crossing tags. Then I hit Esc to end this add. (Otherwise you will draw a way.)

One thing to keep in mind is that Shift-r will 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.

Comentèro de mtc lo 12 August 2016 a 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.

Comentèro de mvexel lo 12 August 2016 a 04:48

I don’t know why utilsplugin was not made part of the core a long time ago…

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Mapping pedestrian crossings

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