[OSM-newbies] What's the easiest method to "snap" an area boundary to adjacent ways?

[Russell Harrison]

I would love to know an easier way to do this as well.  I spent a long
time merging every set of nodes for a park that borders a lake to get
the shoreline matched up.  It also seems important for administrative
boundaries that border stream or river center lines as an example.

Russell

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:22 PM, m902 <m902.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a few situations where the boundary (or part of it) of an area is an
> adjacent way. Examples are:
> - A sports field, bounded by a river on one side and a road on another.
> - A residential area bounded by a road on one side and the sports field on
> another.
> - A commercial area bounded by a road.
> Obviously I could draw the boundary by selecting each node of the adjacent
> way...but I wondered if I am missing somethng and if there is an easier
> method?
> I would like to just select a beginning node and an end node on the existing
> way and tell it to set the area boundary to follow it.
> Is anything like that possible?
> Couldn't see anything like that in Potlatch or JOSM.
> Thanks...
> Martin
>
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