OpenStreetMap
I was trying to name some of the streets in my neighborhood when I noticed some inaccuracies in the traces. We have lots of little streets around here where the name are different on different sides of an intersection. So, the segment of a road north of York Mills Road is known as Sandover Drive, while the segment south of it is known as Valley Woods Drive. In OSM, these two streets are the same trace. Is there any way to create a break in the trace so that the two names may be assigned to the appropriate segments?
Discussion
Comment from rtdg on 25 August 2008 at 14:03
With Potlatch it is easy to do. Highlight the trace and then highlight the point, in this case at the intersection with York Mills Road, where you want to separate the two streets. Then go to the bottom left corner of the Potlatch screen where you see the scissor. Clicking on this icon will separate the two streets and allow you to rename the incorrect one.
It is also easily done with JOSM. When you have highlighted the street and the point go into the menu items at the top and look for tools. One of the drop down menu items is to "Separate Way" and clicking on this will do the same thing.
Comment from SuborbitalPigeon on 25 August 2008 at 14:26
Incidentally, the "trace" is actually called a way. Traces are what GPSes produce.
Comment from LivingWithDragons on 25 August 2008 at 14:46
To highlight multiple items in JOSM do it like this:
click/select the way/street, hold down shift and select the node/point, then both are highlighted.
I don't know about Potlatch (the online editor), but that might also be by holding down shift.
Comment from GRagib on 26 August 2008 at 02:09
rtdg + bruce89 + LivingWithDragons : Thanks for the info. I should read the wiki more thoroughly now before proceeding further.
Comment from Breezer on 26 August 2008 at 19:15
I end up doing this reasonably often in JOSM so the right bits of a road are named correctly, or so a oneway=yes tag applies to the right segments.
I find it easier to select the NODE first, then hold shift and select the way - doing it the other way round makes it harder to see if I've clicked the node correctly, because the way is already quite bright and the node is less visible.
For newer users: In josm, 'P' is the keyboard shortcut to split it - listed after the menu item; its not S because S is the shortcut for switching to select mode and much more commonly needed.