[josm-dev] Integrate remaining two UtilsPlugin actions into JOSM core?

[Ulf Lamping]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Well... the "join node to way" function might deserve closer
> attention. I know of at least one user who, after having imported a
> dataset that didn't properly join up roads, would have liked something
> like "join all end nodes to nearest way if distance less than 5
> metres" or so. 
That would be a "bulk join node to way" and maybe not the same menu 
entry that what we currently have. There's more on this, e.g. having a 
preview and alike.
> Also, we talked about joining nodes to ways by just
> dragging them onto a way.
>   
Sounds good. If we have this, the "join node to way" function will 
probably become just obsolete in it's current form.

Unless we have that, I'll move that function into the core.
> The same goes for the "simplify way" action. This action, in my eyes,
> definitely needs a dialog where you select the simplicifaction
> parameter and get an idea of how many nodes this is going to remove,
> or maybe even a "preview" dialog with a slider ;-)
>   
Understood. After this explanation, this doesn't seem to be "ready for 
prime time" yet. I'll leave it in the plugin.
> It is a bit sad that the Utils plugin has only these two actions; I
> don't think there is a compelling reason for moving these into the
> core except that it is cumbersome to install a plugin just for these
> two. But what will happen next? As soon as somebody comes up with a
> cool but exotic feature he's going to write an "Utils2" plugin that
> has only this one feature, and then we'll say "well people can't be
> bothered to install a plugin just for that feature" and move it into
> the core, and so on.
>   
As Martijn mentioned, we might want to keep the utility plugin as a 
shell for "experimental" utilities.
> On the other hand, at least for the join node into way action, it is
> hard do explain why this is in the plugin...
>   
FULL ACK. I use the join function "daily", so having to install that 
plugin just for this function seems cumbersome.
> I don't know. Put them in the core if the others are happy with it...
> but then you have to explain to Martijn that his plugin is now just a
> zombie ;-)
>   
Martijn seems to be ok with moving his features into core ;-)

Regards, ULFL