[josm-dev] Geometric calculations and projections

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/12/8 Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>

> > Yes, I understand that, but a user tracing imagery will probably be
> > expecting the application to behave like a drawing application, with
> > an 'extrude' operation extruding perpendicular to the object as seen
> > on screen, not going off in some random direction that it thinks is
> > clever. Some users don't understand/want to care about projections,
> > and just want to draw things 'as-seen'.
>
> JOSM is not a vector graphics application, it is a mapping
> application.   IMO it should always (try) to do the correct thing.
>
>
+1,

cheers,
Martin