I remember my first steps in OSM. I drew buildings using Yahoo images. How ugly they were! I spent hours, but they did not look like real houses, just some strange, crooked figures.
With JOSM it is much better!
Now I draw similar shape quickly and very approximately, press "Tools/Orthogonalize shape" and that's almost it. Sometimes it's needed to widen or to narrow the house.
Great thanks to JOSM community!
Discussion
Kommentaar van hkucharek op 6 Januarie 2009 om 10:36
Hi Igor! Glad to hear it is useful for you. I developed the functionality for JOSM, when I also traced plenty of buildings from Yahoo aerial imagery and wanted a simple way to get the shape nice. The old function could do only rectangles.
Harald
Kommentaar van Igor Shubovych op 6 Januarie 2009 om 11:32
Thanks a lot! It is just marvelous.
JOSM is getting better every day.
Kommentaar van flamed op 21 Desember 2009 om 21:49
Hi, thanks @ hkuchareki for that function. Does anybody know if there is a tool for merkaator/potlatch which does the trick?