This page is more or less an incomplete copy of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/FastDraw.

Fast Draw - creating lines with mouse or pen

Suggested usage - tracing forests, rivers, lakes, twisted roads etc. Without clicking A button or left mouse click too much.

Usage with streams

1. Enter the drawing mode, click pen toolbar icon (or Shift+F))
2. Point cursor at starting position. Move mouse. Press or hold Spacebar or left mouse button pressed when you want to add more nodes

• Backspace - to delete one of previous nodes sequentially
• Ctrl+Click on free node makes it fixed (icon: a green dot) - that will not be affected by simplification; you may use it for corners or other significant parts of shape but this is not required
• Ctrl+Click on fixed node (icon: a green dot inside red dot) - makes it normal node
• Shift+Click (icon: red cross) - to delete selected node
• Shift+Click (icon: red cross) - can also used to delete sequence of insignificant nodes between two fixed nodes; it will be highlighted in blue
• Click on the first node (icon: rectangle with red corners) - will create continuous contour

3. Enter. Line is simplified to reduce number of nodes.
4. (optionally) fine tune simplification using Up or Down buttons.
5. Enter again. Line (Way) is created and selected.

Configuration menu (Q)

Drawing

• When dragging over existing nodes, they are included in new line automatically.

Editing in drawing mode

• Ctrl+Shift+Click - clears the sketch and start new one.

• After deletion of the fragment you can redraw it by mouse from the beginning to the end (active segment marked orange).
• To stop editing fragment Shift+Click on free area or press Escape.

See also

• ​Russian discussion in 08-2011

Plugin is in testing phase, you can add ticket with bug or enhancement at ​http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket.

Please use simplification and validator! Do not upload huge and self-intersecting lines.