[josm-dev] Change JOSM default projection from EPSG:4326 to Mercartor?

[Ulf Lamping]

Igor Brejc schrieb:
>   I have to agree with Frederik, leaving WMS plugin enabled for the 
> Mercator projection is asking for trouble. Most people don't know much 
> about projections and problems with raster data and they will happily 
> go using Landsat images for tracing land features - I know I did until 
> I switched the view to EPSG projection half an hour ago and now I find 
> all of the things I entered offseted compared to the Landsat image.
> I think the first priority of JOSM is to enable people to enter 
> information accurately. If that means using EPSG projection, so be it.
I perfectly understand your reasoning and I agree in comparing "nice 
looking circles" in contrast to "accurate data" I'm pretty sure accuracy 
is *much* more important.

So unless someone comes up with a pretty good reason to use Mercator 
that outweights this, I tend to set the JOSM default back to EPSG ...

Regards, ULFL