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)). Icon will be set to cross.
2. Point cursor at starting position. Move mouse. Press or hold: Spacebar or left mouse button - when you want to add more nodes. Icon will we switched to (icon: cross with 3 nodes), it means that nodes will be added.

• You can move nodes simply by dragging them
• 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
• If you point cross cursor over node that was entered by other JOSM tools, it will be added as fixed node
• 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. After you removed a segment, you will enter redrawing mode, a segment that is currently redrawn will be displayed in yellow:
• - You can use other shortcuts as usual;
• - To finish redrawing and save new nodes of a segment press Shift+Click or Escape
• Ctrl+Shift+Click (icon: red cross) - will remove all nodes, tool will be ready to use again
• Escape - to stop editing (you will be prompted to save your edits)
• 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.

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

Configuration menu (Q)

See also

• ​Russian discussion in 08-2011