[josm-dev] JOSM extension for orthogonalizing ways

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Brian Quinion wrote:
> This is my
> big problem with the current implementation - it creates a rectangle
> in the current projection with the result that (as you go further
> north / south) the rectangle become more and more misaligned to
> physical reality.

If you use the Mercator projection that problem should be less 
pronounced. It is not easy to do rectangular alignment on the surface of 
a sphere which is basically what you're asking for. The geometry code is 
complicated already even if you're just dealing with projected data!

We could of course simply disable the option for the EPSG:4326 
projection. Which used to be the default because of the inability of the 
WMS plugin to work properly with anything else. Maybe the new WMS code 
doesn't break as bad when used with Mercator, in that case we could 
switch the default to Mercator.

Bye
Frederik

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