[josm-dev] PATCH: in "Draw" mode, extend current way

[Matthias Julius]

Chris Morley <c.morley at dsl.pipex.com> writes:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 
>> Another option would be: simply act as if the nearest end point of the
>> selected way were selected. That would eliminate having to click on
>> the desired end point - and for those 0.5% of cases where you actually
>> want to draw a segment from the far end of the way and not from the
>> near end, you'll have to shift-click the node...

This is exactly what I meant.

>> 
> A visual indication on the end that will be extended would be provided 
> by the terminal mode being highlighted. This would then make it 
> consistent with joining only to selected nodes when a way was not selected.

As I wrote in an earlier mail I would love to see JOSM draw a line
from the node it would extend from to the mouse pointer. I think this
would help a lot with aligning ways to existing ways or imagery. Don't
know what is involved to make that happen, though.

Matthias