Allow multiselection via search results

[jidanni]

Here there could be checkboxes added on the left to each of the five items.

Doing that would be a way for the user to finally multiselect all the segments of that road.

Then the user could in the Tags box at the bottom of the left panel, change some of theses items:

highway=*
name=西屯路一段
name:en=Xitun Road Section 1
name:zh=西屯路一段

Thus finally giving the user a way to update e.g., the name of a road along its entire path!

Currently one needs JOSM apparently to do that. No more!

Yes, you are wondering why can't the user just tediously SHIFT+CLICK all the many segments?

Well that is error prone, and one little clicking error and all that clicking gets unclicked and is wasted. Also itsy bitsy segments are hard to click on.

Anyway this could solve

• https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-deal-with-road-names-across-split-segments/98876
• https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/no0m21/correcting_street_names/
• https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-to-select-several-road-segments-to-change-their-property/73901
• etc.

[tyrasd]

I don't think the best way to implement this from a UI point of view is with checkboxes, but I do see the use cases where getting a multiselection from the search results list would be useful.

Perhaps it could work to just have a "select all" button on the bottom of the search results? Or alternatively, the shift-click pattern could also be applied on the search results list: as long as the shift key is pressed, the list remains open and additional elements can be selected (for touch-input devices, this could be implemented via long-press maybe).

[Deeptanshu-sankhwar]

Thanks for sharing this @jidanni @tyrasd . I have raised a PR for an implementation that tries to solve the above issue. In the PR, I allow selection of multiple features from the dropdown when SHIFT key is pressed.

As you can see in the first run of the preview, I am holding SHIFT for the first three features in the dropdown and release it for the 4 feature thereby getting a selection of the selected 4 features. In the second run, I am just selecting one feature without any SHIFT key pressed.

Do let me know your thoughts about it. Thanks.

Screen.Recording.2025-02-01.at.10.20.54.AM.1.mp4

[jidanni]

@Deeptanshu-sankhwar Thanks for all your hard work.

• @jidanni is real good at coming up with new ideas.
• @Deeptanshu-sankhwar is real good at implementing them.
• @tyrasd is real good at testing them and approving them.

[Deeptanshu-sankhwar]

Thanks a lot for your cheerful comments @jidanni ! Always love checking and working on the issues you post.

[jidanni]

@Deeptanshu-sankhwar I can't find your email address to tell you if you really want to be a hero, you could fix https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/struggling-to-switch-to-josm/110978/54 . Thanks. But note https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/josm-wayland-how-will-it-evolve/125078/9 so just add flexibility to iD... #7866

[Deeptanshu-sankhwar]

Thanks a lot for sharing @jidanni! I'll start looking into it.

Also, worth mentioning, I tried to reach out to you on OSM Slack, and my email is [email protected]. 😄

Hope you're having a great day so far @jidanni