utils2 enhancements

[Bjoern Hassler]

Hi Pierre,

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, replace geometry is great. We'll take that
approach, but have a single-action replace. E.g. we are looking at
buildings in Africa, with some 60k node-buildings. So we have a
single-action (eg. Keyboard shortcut) to turn the node (e.g. selected by
to-do plugin) into 1. The start of a way with building tool, or 2. A
rectangle (selected and read for scale and rotate) or 3. A circle (selected
and ready for scaling).

When looking at that number of nodes, every click counts. So it's about
streamlining, without loosing accuracy.

Does that make sense?
Bjoern


On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 at 15:07, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Bjoern
>
> Actions on objects can come from the core or various Plugins. It is
> possible to replace a building node by a way by simply using the Replace
> geometry.
>
> A Contextual menu would greatly help to summarize possible actions when
> pressing the left mouse button.
>
> For example, the Replace geometry action would be proposed when either a
> node or way building are selected simultaneously with a new way.
>
> Pierre
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *De :* Bjoern Hassler <bjohas+mw at gmail.com>
> *À :* Vincent Privat <vincent at josm.openstreetmap.de>
> *Cc :* josm-dev <josm-dev at openstreetmap.org>
> *Envoyé le :* mercredi 21 juin 2017 9h52
> *Objet :* Re: utils2 enhancements
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> At the moment the buildings plugin doesn't have a menu presence. So I'm
> less confident about how the UI might work. Many plugins take up smenu
> space, so would not want to clutter it more. Any thoughts?
>
> Bjoern
>
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 at 13:46, Vincent Privat <
> vincent at josm.openstreetmap.de>
> wrote:
>
> > If it's specific to buildings it might be better to enhance the
> > building_tools plugin:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/BuildingsTools
> >
> > You can then submit a patch on the JOSM bugtracker for review.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vincent
> >
> > 2017-06-21 13:44 GMT+02:00 Bjoern Hassler <bjohas+mw at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Dear friends,
> >>
> >> we've been looking at developing some plugins for JOSM, e.g. to
> facilitate
> >> fixing certain issues (e.g. assistance in replacing node-buildings by
> >> way-buildings, similar to 'replace geometry') as well as assistance
> >> adjusting residential areas (e.g. setting an arbitrary but consistent
> >> border to the next building).
> >>
> >> At the moment, we have some of this as javascripts in the scripting
> >> plugin.
> >> However, it would be good to transform it into a proper plugin. I think
> it
> >> could form a separate plugin, but it could also be integrated into
> utils2.
> >>
> >> Does anybody / the developers of utils2 have a view about this?
> >>
> >> Many thanks!
> >> Bjoern
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>