Measure distance along curved roads while editing

Walking along a curved road, I made a precise survey,

...
1047m left  side telephone pole 32;
1063m right side electric  pole 159;
1068m right side telephone pole 32;
1074m right side electric  pole 160;
...

Now comes the task of putting them in the right spots on the map.

iD has Ctrl+Shift+M: Toggle measurement panel, but I need one that can show distance along (curved) roads.

I wish to click to make an anchor, then as I move the mouse along the curved road, there is some counter on the screen showing me the distance so far, and then when I see the right distance, I click some more to insert the pole on the map etc. as usual, without turning off the distance calculator.

(Maybe JOSM has such tool, but I can't use JOSM as its reverse mouse bindings mess up my muscle memory.)

Sure on osm.org website one can use the directions A to B tool in the left panel, but that is not inside the editor.

(Utility poles alas are just below the visibility threshold of the editors' background imagery, hence the need for my precise survey.)

(I took advantage of the road being recently repaved and then for their final report the crews had painted exact distances all along it. (Which will fade after a few months.))

Note in actuality I do not have a nice file as above, but instead just sloppy hand scribbled notes,

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32 L 1047
1063 159 R
1068 R 32
R 1074 160
...

Therefore this is not good for a "batch edit job", but rather simple hand editing.

Yes I read

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/30170/is-it-possible-to-render-road-distance-from-its-start-point https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/3193/measuring-distance