[OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

[John Smith]

2009/11/3 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
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> 2009/11/3 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>
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>> 2009/11/3 Michael Barabanov <michael.barabanov at gmail.com>:
>> > Also, a free-hand drawing mode (e.g. press-down left mouse button and
>> > drag) in JOSM would go a long way towards faster tracing. Clicking to
>> > add one point at a time is pretty slow.
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>> +1
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> -1; I doubt it would be of any help at all. I'm drawing a lot in
> vector-programms (professionally) and never using those free-hand-modes, as
> you can't draw exactly with a mouse (at least I can't, or if I do I'll have
> to adjust 80% of the controll points manually afterwards, so there is no
> gain in time). Well, if you got a digitizer it might be useful. If there are
> very few tracks in the area you are drawing in, it might also be useful if
> there was a snap to gpx-point-mode, but still I think that's too many ifs.
> (of course: feel free to develop a solution and convince me of the
> opposite).

Gimp lets you plot freehand or if you hold shift will do a straight
line, I'm sure there is a number of modifiers that would make a free
hand mode useful...