I don't know a way to enter the width of a building (or length of a way for that matter) directly, but are you trying to draw rectangles? If so, have a look at this video, which might make it a bit easier: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/tutorials/josm-extrude-feature.mpeg
Greetings xeen Norbert.J.Girardi schrieb: > Hello to all, > > Because of the funny numbering scheme in our area I'm trying to draw and > number the buildings in my little neck of the woods individually one by one. > > see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.502&mlon=8.6036111&zoom=17 > > Is there a way to draw the "ways" for these buildings using width and > length entries like with a normal drawing editor? > > In JOSM one has to draw the ways and then adjust the four corners by > measuring the distances, changing the position of at least two corners, > readjusting the resulting shape to a rectangle again, measuring the > distances and so on and so on ...... > > This is very tedious work and with more than 100 objects on only a few > streets it is no fun at all. > > I hope someone can tell me what page to read on the f* manual or that > one of the "editor guys" can be persuaded to create such a feature. > > > Best regards > > Norbert (nogirard) > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
