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

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-05-01 19:01, Russ Nelson wrote:
>I'm just wondering how often you move an entire way, as opposed to a
>single node? You can get the same effect by selecting the way,
>searching for "child selected", and then moving any one of the
>nodes. 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 don't use it every day, but those who draw buildings do (or should). Draw 
the roof of a tall building. Drag (usually somewhat diagonally) the whole 
(closed) way to move it to the correct ground position, based on whichever 
corner is visible at ground level.

Having said that, because I rarely draw buildings, most of the time I end 
up moving a way in JOSM, it's a mistake. It usually happens when trying to 
select one of the midpoint 'x' to create a new node and position it, and 
selecting the whole way instead. Longer ways are protected by a dialog that 
warns you, but I'd like to see the same for shorter ways. I would also like 
to add the ability to suppress a warning for just the current JOSM 
instance, so you could suppress it when doing a bunch of building geometry 
work. Those that routinely do this sort of thing could suppress it 
permanently, like any other warning.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>