[josm-dev] Download area from slippy map

[bill purvis]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Andreas Fritsche wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> >> [..] the slippymap-chooser used  the
> >> same scroll and zoom shortcuts as the editor does.
> >
> > I don't think it ever had. It was the "world image" that shared a
> > controller with the main map view, not the slippy map chooser.
>
> I never used the world image chooser to be of any value (I use a Mac
> -> single button, no panning, no scrolling, since the
> control-click-behaviour seems not to be interpreted) and used the
> copy'n'paste coordinate-interface until I discovered the
> slippymap-chooser.. - so I think you are wrong here. Nevertheless I
> don't want to argue on this. I'd be a nice feature to have the
> shortcuts as a fallback. => Ticket #2205
>
> Cheers
>    Andreas
>
I found it to be pretty useless too. I tried zooming in but only got
an enlarged section of the original image. Huge pixels. Not much good!

Bill
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