> In your case you may have a way with 4 nodes. And you want to divide it > up into seperate things. OK? > > I put 2 new nodes on the way. > Then I break the way at these new nodes. > Then I close the resultant 2 ways (one old but modified and one new) by > extending both ways to close them. > > This results in > the old way getting 2 new nodes and loosing 2 old nodes, and > a new way with 2 old nodes and 2 new nodes. > > Thus all the old things are still there ... but now thee are added > things to make more detail.
In case you are using JOSM, I recommend installing the utilsplugin2 [1], it has a split area (alt-X) function that speeds up this process. Also, the terracer plugin [2] will keep some history, since the original rectangle is turned into one of the new "sub-buildings". [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/utilsplugin2 [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Terracer _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
