[OSM-newbies] Entering building sizes in meters into one of the editors

[Norbert.J.Girardi]

Hello to all,

Because of the funny numbering scheme in our area I'm trying to draw and 
number the buildings in my little neck of the woods individually one by one.

see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.502&mlon=8.6036111&zoom=17

Is there a way to draw the "ways" for these buildings using width and 
length entries like with a normal drawing editor?

In JOSM one has to draw the ways and then adjust the four corners by 
measuring the distances, changing the position of at least two corners, 
readjusting the resulting shape to a rectangle again, measuring the 
distances and so on and so on ......

This is very tedious work and with more than 100 objects on only a few 
streets it is no fun at all.

I hope someone can tell me what page to read on the f* manual or that 
one  of the "editor guys" can be persuaded to create such a feature.


Best regards

Norbert (nogirard)