A tool to help power pole mapping

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Great to see task-oriented editors like this cropping up! For what it’s worth, I’ve been using the following workaround in iD:

  1. Select a power=line or power=minor_line way.
  2. Press Ctrl↓ (⌘↓ on macOS) to select all of the way’s nodes. You can use the list at the top of the sidebar to selectively remove any nodes you don’t want to modify.
  3. Choose the Power Pole or High-Voltage Tower preset. If some of the selected nodes are already tagged as power=pole or power=tower, click Multiple Types and change it to the right preset, or expand the Tags section at the bottom and click on Multiple Values next to power to apply the same tag to all the selected nodes.

You can do this repeatedly to the same way, but be careful about accidentally changing a power=tower to a power=pole at the location where a power=minor_line connects to a power=line.

Even if you end up using this workaround, I hope you continue to explore editor development. There’s so much untapped potential for making tedious tasks more pleasant.

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