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5060	Add nodes by heading/distance.	dw-osm@…	team	"It would be nice to be able to draw lines using data from surveyors' maps and legal land descriptions.  Those documents typically say things like "" S 42°35'17"" E  225' "", which indicates a line starting from the current point, 225 feet long, with a heading of 42°35'17"" East of South (equal to a compass heading of 137°24'43"").

I imagine a function similar to the existing ""Add Node..."".  You would first select a starting point, then click this new tool (called ""Add Line..."" perhaps?).  You would then get a dialog where you would enter a distance (in feet or meters) and a heading (as a compass heading or in the above notation).  

When you click ""OK"", a new node would be added at the specified distance and angle from the original node, with a line connecting them.  The new line would be selected, and if you do ""Add Line..."" again, the newly added node would be used as the start point, rather similar to how the existing ""Draw nodes"" works.

Come to think of it, this could be added to the existing ""Add Node..."" tool, instead of in a new tool.  If you have a node selected before choosing ""Add Node..."", the dialog could have tabs to choose different data entry forms, so you can enter either lat/long or heading/distance.  In either case, the tool could draw a line from the selected node to the new node.
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