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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!

ორენიː Darnytskyi district, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Comment from hkucharek on %დ %თ %წ at %ს:%წ

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

Comment from Igor Shubovych on %დ %თ %წ at %ს:%წ

Thanks a lot! It is just marvelous.
JOSM is getting better every day.

Comment from flamed on %დ %თ %წ at %ს:%წ

Hi, thanks @ hkuchareki for that function. Does anybody know if there is a tool for merkaator/potlatch which does the trick?

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