[OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

[Craig Wallace]

On 31/01/2011 00:32, John Goodman wrote:
>
>>    Thought I would announce a new tool that is now available in
>> Potlatch 2 that makes it easier to draw ways that share nodes with
>> another way: "follow".
>
> This sounds great, especially for coastline work. I hope JOSM can get
> something similar.

It seems the ContourMerge plugin for JOSM does something like this 
(though I've not tried it myself).
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/ContourMerge

Craig