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Creating Neighborhoods: How to do lots of addresses? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
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The main challenge with filling in neighborhoods is adding the addresses.

Adding the buildings is not so bad if the houses are mostly rectangles and only a couple sizes; copy/paste is pretty quick. Labeling other properties is similarly straightforward. However, adding hundreds of unique addresses is prohibitively tedious! I currently have to click on a single house, click on the address field, check the address, enter the address, then repeat for the next house. This is not so bad until it's repeated 100s (or 1000s) of times.

PLEASE tell me I'm just being foolish and there is an easy way to scroll through multiple selected buildings to enter the same field in each! I'm picturing something like: select all houses, enter first address, HOTKEY TO NEXT HOUSE, enter next address. Not only would it remove several steps, but also remove manual mouse clicks which require diverting attention. If I could do this, I could have a list of addresses and zip through an entire area pretty quickly without losing my place constantly looking back and forth.

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why not using josm, filtering for those buildings and filling out all the info once

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay, so I have the houses selected in JOSM. I can only find an option to change all at once. How do I cycle from one at a time? Or is there a way to view them side-by side like a spreadsheet? That would also work. If you have the time to explain it step by step I would really appreciate it and it would help me learn a lot! Thank you.

Note: new to JOSM