[OSM-talk] Users of the JOSM "select straight line" feature?

[Matthias Julius]

Håkon Enger <hakon.enger at fys.uio.no> writes:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> A patch has been submitted that would add a feature where you select
>> one  segment and it automatically selects all adjacent, unwayed, non-
>> branching segments, with the aim of making it easier to create ways.
>
> This sounds much less useful than the current tool. In a city there is
> often only one segment between intersections, and most ways span many
> blocks, so this new feature would only be marginally more useful than
> the "select single segment" feature.

I think a tool would be useful that allows to create ways in a similar
fashion to Potlatch: create nodes, segments and ways on the fly at the
same time; use existing nodes when the user clicks on one.

The "Add node and connect it to the selected node" tool is already
close.  It already can extend existing ways if one selects the end
node of an existing way that is not used by other segments.  Otherwise
it creates segments.  If it would automatically highlight the new
segments one could quickly turn them into a way.  And if it could
incorporate existing nodes I wouldn't need to switch tools that often.

Matthias