[OSM-newbies] JOSM - How do I use the measurement tool

[Iain Simpson]

Thanks
That what I though it should do

The measurement plugin(measurement.jar) has been downloaded(in 
~/.josm/plugins) but is not 'registered' & therefore no icon.
Manifest :
> Manifest-Version: 1.0
> Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.7.1
> Created-By: 1.6.0_02-b06 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
> Author: Raphael Mack, Reza Mohammadi
> Plugin-Class: org.openstreetmap.josm.plugins.measurement.MeasurementPlugin
> Plugin-Date: 2011-01-25T10:13:50.538290Z
> Plugin-Description: Provide a measurement dialog and a layer to measur
>  e length and angle of segments, area surrounded by a (simple) closed
>  way and create measurement paths (which also can be imported from
>  gps layer).
> Plugin-Icon: images/dialogs/measure.png
> Plugin-Mainversion: 3408
> Plugin-Version: 25137
>

I'm running version JOSM ver 3751 java 1.6._20
on Ubuntu 10.10



 >I've added a short description to the wiki. I hope it's of some help.
 >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/measurement

 >Happy mapping
 >Willi