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Opened 10 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#9303 closed enhancement (worksforme)

Implement "Select visible"

Reported by: A_Pirard Owned by: team
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Core Version: latest
Keywords: select visible output Cc: A_Pirard

Description

External helper software deploy ingenious methods to filter OSM data.
JOSM could do it itself much more easily (WYSIWYG).

JOSM implements a sophisticated visibility filter: use it.
Then Edit>Select visible.
Then Edit>Merge selection
Then File>Save as ...
All done. Away external helpers.

Far from limited to that... Are the names on boundaries unwanted?
Filter boundary=administrative
Then Edit>Select visible.
Then blank the tag names to remove them.
Change selection and continue as above.
Hope that all this triggers a warning to prevent updating the database.

I trust your imagination for the rest...
In fact, working on only visible data makes much sense.
And "Ignore invisible" is next in your imagination.
That would remove it from JOSM data without deleting it.

In fact, "Select all" could be *replaced* by "Select visible".
I see no case of someone not wanting to disable the filter for a while,
and even of selecting all when using a filter in the first place.

Merging data is obscure to the novice, or should I say non-expert.
You may want to implement File>Save visible as... too.

Side note:
I did File>Download object... boundary relations + download incomplete ...
Then, I File>Download from OSM... a very small bbox around a node.
Then, with full image well framed, File>Save as...
Only the small bbox was in the output.
I could not find how to change the bbox without loading data.
Anyway, shouldn't "Save as" set the bbox to the size of the display?
Or all the data?

BTW2: please call removing a layer "Close", not "Delete".
We must be very cautious about what "delete" means.

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comment:1 by Don-vip, 10 years ago

Priority: majornormal
Summary: Implement "Select visible" (full of benefits)Implement "Select visible"

comment:2 by simon04, 4 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

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