[josm-dev] Patch for "Align nodes straight and parallel" action

[A Morris]

> You're right, that the action probably needs more clicks. but making ways
> straight and aligned is not such an often done task, so for me the
> negative fact to have more different tools counts more :-)

I'm not sure how having additional tools is a negative? I agree it
isn't the most common operation, but there are perfectly legitimate
uses; for instance, aisles in a parking area or a grid of streets.

> I will happily integrate a patch which makes two ways parallel without
> needing special way design. This is also a long-standing feature request.
> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/67
>
> You can also make a request:
>
> What do you want to do?
> "straigthen ways", "relative to first", "relative to mean"

Surely separate actions would be more useful ("make parallel" and
"make straight and parallel"); it would be really annoying to have to
select from a dialog box every time the action was used. (I don't see
how the third option "relative to first" would work, how would the
algorithm know which is "first"?)

Aled.