[josm-dev] "Sticky Tags" Feature

[Russ Nelson]

Frederik Ramm writes:
 > > I'd like to implement a feature in JOSM that applies the tags from the
 > > clipboard to every new way or node created. I think this would be
 > > useful for creating powerlines (apply power=tower to every new node
 > > in the way) or for a set of buildings along a street (addr:street=*
 > > to every new building).
 > 
 > A graphics program i used to use, maybe it was dia?, worked like this:
 > whenever an object was selected and you changed properties, you were
 > changing the properties of that object. When no object was selected,
 > you were changing the default properties for new objects. 

Oooh!  Ooooh!  Much simpler than my Presets proposal. Only problem is
that it might confuse newbies. Maybe put it in a different color or
font to let them know that they're setting a different kind of
property?

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