Author: immanuel.scholz[at]gmx.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.30pm, Wednesday, 14th June 2006]

Erik described it in a nice way:

I need someway to zoom and select easier/more effective, and handle
ways better. The test.osm is a test case, it depends on the size of
your window.. I'm on laptop 12" 1024x768. You can try some of the
selecting things I describe bellow, with this file.

== Handling Ways ==
The dialog that says "this way is not complete" should offer you to
download that way, to complete it.

== Selecting ==
Please do a BFS select tool, that works like this;

1. choose a segment
2. chose BFS
3. choose another segment

• this will select all segments between the ones you selected first and last.
• preferably this would be visual, so you can see which segments
  will be selected when you drag your pointer around.
• this would be wonderful if it worked with the way tool, e.g. your
  are adding segments to ways then choose BFS, and can just add the
  nearest segments easily. (if you are using a similar structure to the
  applet I would guess this is hard to do in a nice way)

You offer a square select tool, this works fine but its very hard to
select a group of segments that are not in a straight line. Especially
in City environments where you have a high density of segments.

It's very hard to select single small near vertical segments, I almost
always accidentally select a node instead. I (almost) never want to
select nodes.