Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Introduction

Timestamp:

2007-01-23T16:10:28+01:00 (19 years ago)

Author:

dmgroom

Comment:

typos and answer to question

Introduction

@@ -19 +19 @@
 Before you start to add or amend OpenStreetMap data, you will somehow need to know where you roads are going to be!
 
-The easiest case to start with is where you have your own GPX track of a route saved on your own computer.   Use menu option File > open to load the GPX file into JOSM.  You will then see in the [wiki:Help/MapView main map view] window a series of dots representing your GPX track.
+The easiest case to start with is where you have your own GPX track of a route saved on your own computer.   Use menu option Files > Open to load the GPX file into JOSM.  You will then see in the [wiki:Help/MapView main map view] window a series of dots representing your GPX track.
 
 An alternative is to download existing GPX points from the OSM server.  In order to start this process you will need to know the latitude  and longitude coordinates of the relevant area.  The easiest way to do this is to visit the [http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html map] and to zoom in to the area you are interested in, then to move the mouse over the View tab, and copy the resulting link.  You will need to have zoomed in to a fairly small area, in residential areas where there is a lot of existing OSM activity you will need to be at a zoom level of 12, other less dense areas will probably be bale to be downloaded at zoom level 14.  Once you have copied the OSM link ( which will look something like {{{http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=50.687181128986&lon=-1.0795289310465817&zoom=14}}}) you can then paste this into the "URL from open streetmap.org box on the JOSM [wiki:Help/Action/Download download option].
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     street names are rendered in the direction of travel, so it is helpful if segments are drawn left to right, then the street names appear the correct way up
 
-4) All segments in a way should be in order, this will be handles automatically by JOSM if all the segments are turned into a way in one go, but you can add new segments to an existing way, and this sometimes causes the order to get jumbled up.
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-(which begs the question: how do I reorder segments???)
+4) All segments in a way should be in order, this will be done automatically by JOSM if all the segments are turned into a way in one go, but you can add new segments to an existing way, and this sometimes causes the order to get jumbled up. Ways can be re-ordered using [wiki:Help/Menu/Edit Edit > Reorder segments].
 
 5) The key / value tagging is case sensitive, all keys should be entered in