[josm-dev] Drawing adjacent areas

[Igor Brejc]

Hello,

Currently I'm working on outlining forested and other natural areas 
around my hometown, but I'm having problems with the latest version of 
JOSM (368). As far as I can see, there is now only one tool for drawing 
nodes and connecting them into ways. There are two problems which I see:
1. How to create adjacent areas which share certain nodes? The only way 
I see is to draw an area, then break it into several ways, then 
duplicate those ways and connect them into two or more areas. This is 
pretty cumbersome work. I was hoping the new OSM API would help make 
this more user-friendly.
2. Drawing nodes close to the existing ways makes them snap to those 
ways even if you did not intend this to happen.

As I can observe, the JOSM is now targeted squarely on drawing roads, 
support for areas has dimished (except for simple cases). I understand 
the need for simplification of OSM tools for newbies, but I still think 
JOSM should support more advanced tasks too.

Cheers,
Breki