#178 Object tagging

[Anonymous]

Hi OO Mapper Team:

Just discovered your project ... fabulous! I wish I were a talented enough coder to assist, but I'm not.

I welcome a workaround (or how to) for this request, as well.

A feature request: tag/object information maintained in imported data -- DXF and OSM (and the Shape Files of the future), to be able to select objects by this tag info.

I'm working with LIDAR data, Karttapullautin, and the resultant DXF files from that processing, as well as OSM (and other georeferenced source) data to generate fast, but pretty darned good O maps.

Karttapullautin DXF output and OSM extract data both contain useful 'tags', or object types, that I can use to map to symbols when doing imports in OCAD -- and use a template to do it, as these tags are consistent.

Thanks for the feature some time in the future, or a workaround if anyone has a 'good way' to do this!

[Kai Pastor]

I agree that there is a number of useful applications for object tagging in Mapper. But its probably not a priority for our first stable release.

[hughmac4]

Oops, forgot to log in before opening this ticket. It was me! :)

Super, just wanted to get it on the schedule. Thanks Kai.

[hughmac4]

And if anyone else finds it useful, I wrote a bash script (Linux) to split OSM data (downloads from http://extract.bbbike.org/) into components, for import into Mapper. It's pretty basic (highway, railway, waterway), but easily extensible to other tag types (just add to the || statement in the do_tag function). Basically it goes through all of the tags, searches for 'way' xml tags, checks the major and minor type of way it is, and populates new .osm files with the data for only those specific types. See attached, and of course your mileage may vary. ;)

Need to do one for Karttapullautin data from DXF files as well, or convince the developer to split his DXF files up even more (or hack his Perl myself).

[Kai Pastor]

Jan Dalheimer has started work on tagging. Maybe test files would be useful (apart from OSM).

[Kai Pastor]

Tags may now be edited in a dock widget. I also fixed some bugs related to tags, the worst one preventing tags from being loaded again.

[Kai Pastor]

I'm going to close this ticket in 0.6.0 because basic object tagging is implemented now.

I created new tickets for importing object tags from DXF [tickets:#337] and from OSM [tickets:#338].