[josm-dev] Selecting objects by bounding box

[Karl Newman]

On Nov 17, 2007 9:36 AM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
> When selecting objects by dragging a bounding box with the mouse
> AutoCAD has a (IMHO) nice feature. When you drag from left to right
> all objects that are completely inside the bounding box are
> selected. (This is what JOSM does.) But, if you drag from right to
> left all objects that _intersect_ the bounding box are selected.
>
> I would love to see that in JOSM. It would help to select all objects
> that affect a certain area.
>
> Matthias

Yes! I'm an AutoCAD user, too, and I make great use of that
functionality. I don't understand the objections to it; I guess I'd
have to see an example. I guess one problem is that AutoCAD doesn't
use "nodes" for its lines, so we'd have to somehow resolve that. Maybe
dragging a bounding box would select ways only by default, but
dragging with a modifier key would select nodes (only?). I dunno, I
haven't used JOSM a whole lot.

I do think it should be more difficult to *move* ways than it
currently is, though. That should be a rare operation (and it's easy
to screw up/move a lot of nodes) so I think it justifies a modifier
key.

Karl