"Virtual vertices" would make fixing up existing way easier

[anonymous]

19:11:18 crschmidt * RichardF: ​http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/modify-feature.html

19:11:20 crschmidt * draw a polygon

19:11:29 crschmidt * then click 'modify feature'

19:11:40 crschmidt * you'll see that on each side, there are extra, draggable points

I would love to see that in JOSM. I guess especially the AND and TIGER fixup guys would give all sorts of gratitude :)

If that link doesn't work: imagine you have a way like the following

*-----+------*------+------*

where the * are real nodes, it draws the + as selection points that you can drag, and when you release the mouse, it becomes a real new node with two new + on either side of it, ready for the next drag.

[Brian Schimmel]

I agree with that, as I was just planing to open up a new ticket suggesting something similar. This would be a great feature.

Currently it is not possible to insert two nodes into a way, because JOSM will connect these by a new way. If the proposal of this ticket is too difficult to implement, it would already help if adding a node into a way would not select the new node.

[anonymous]

A note to Brian: Use 'U' to unselect the new node an you can continue to add new nodes. Thought the method described in this report is very fine. I would like to have it too.

[anonymous]

Implemented in r805.