[HOT] JOSM "mini tasking manager" Plugin

[Mike Thompson]

Dear fellow humanitarian mappers,

When I am mapping or validating a task from the tasking manager, I often
find myself "panning and scanning", that is, zooming into a level at which
I can quickly tell if everything that appears in imagery is mapped, and
then systematically panning over the entire area of the task area (either
with the mouse, or <ctrl>+an arrow key).  This works until I find something
that needs to be mapped, or needs to be mapped differently, in which case I
zoom in, do the mapping... and forget where I was with the "pan and scan"
(keyboard shortcut "8" - zoom previous helps a little, but if multiple
zooms/pans of the map are performed it can be difficult to "get back to
where you were").

I have come up with a prototype of a new plugin which might help.  It
divides the downloaded area in JOSM into a grid of smaller rectangles, and
adds the rectangles to the Todo List (also adds the rectangles to a new
data layer which is blocked from being uploaded from, or downloaded into).
As each of these rectangles is reviewed, you can "Mark" it in the Todo
List, and the Todo List will automatically zoom/pan the map to the next
rectangle.

Questions:
1) Would this be useful?
2) Does this functionality already exist?
3) Should I proceed with development?
4) Should it be its own plugin, or should it be combined with other
functionality of use to this community (for example, I could move the
duplicate building script functionality into this plugin)?

Mike
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