[OSM-talk] JOSM Modeless???

[Matthias Julius]

Rick Collins <gnuarm.2006 at arius.com> writes:

> For example, if I want to make two ways share a common node, I have 
> to add a node to one way, extend the way to a point on the other way, 
> continue that back to the first way.  Then I have to disconnect the 
> existing section of the first way that is being bypassed and delete 
> it.  Finally, I have to combine the new way sections with the 
> existing way and delete the new nodes.  Instead, it would be nice to 
> have a feature to just allow nodes on two ways to be merged.

Try the UtilsPlugin. It has a Merge Nodes tool

>
> Another one is the delete function.  I have never seen any other tool 
> with a delete that worked like the delete in JOSM.  If you have 
> anything selected when you click the delete button it is 
> deleted.  Then on top, the mode has changed to delete and anything I 
> click is now deleted.  I can't tell you how many times I have had to 
> use the undo feature to recover from trying to select something only 
> to delete it.  Wouldn't it be much, much simpler to just use the 
> delete button to delete whatever is selected?  Why do we need a 
> delete mode at all?

I believe, this is being worked on.

> Lastly, it would be very nice to be able to see the name of the 
> action to be undone or redone.  It is more than once that I can't 
> tell if I moved an object when I selected it.  If I undo and it was 
> not moved, I then have undone something else and have to figure out 
> what that was.  The redo button is not always available for a given action.

There is a command history window that probably shows what you want.

Matthias