[josm-dev] JOSM mini-roadmap anyone?

[Gervase Markham]

Dermot McNally wrote:
> It was one of the suggestions at the time. Some folks had concerns
> that it would make it difficult to do small position nudges. 

One way to work around that is that you have a threshold, but once 
you've dragged outside the threshold, it disappears. In other words, if 
the threshold is (say) 5px, and you want to only move it 2px, you drag 
the node 5px out, then back to where you wanted it. In other words, you 
"shake it loose" before positioning it.

Another option would be to have shift-arrow-keys move the selection 1px 
in the appropriate direction per key press, for people worried about 
extremely fine tuning.

> Also, it
> would have required some tuning to be sure that it worked as expected
> at all levels of zoom (you want it to be a distance-on-screen
> threshold, not distance-on-map).

Indeed so. But I'm sure such coordinates are available. They are used 
for moving the mouse, after all :-)

Gerv