[josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

[David Earl]

On 02/05/2012 03:01, Russ Nelson wrote:
>About once a month I need to move an entire way. I don't
> understand the use case for this feature. Can somebody (preferably
> somebody who uses it every day) explain it to me?

I use it all the time (though I too get hit by accidental moves a lot as 
well - and I find the warning more trouble than it is worth - I always 
realise I did it, and it's much easier to turn it off and press CTRL+Z 
when it happens).

I'm doing lots of buildings. I often create them in rectangular sections 
with the building tool which need assembling. It is also much easier 
when working on oblique satellite views to create the outlines at roof 
level and then reposition to ground afterwards (taking account, of 
course, of ground survey and differing roof heights).

Similarly, it is often much easier to copy, paste and move areas of 
grass into position, and then tweak the nodes, than to create each 
individually from scratch.

David