[josm-dev] Windows-Installer: default projection is WGS84

Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 7 07:01:39 BST 2010


Sebastian Klein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried the windows installer and it creates the following default 
> preference file:
> 
>   projection=org.openstreetmap.josm.data.projection.Epsg4326
>   layerlist.visible=true
>   selectionlist.visible=true
>   commandstack.visible=true
>   propertiesdialog.visible=true
>   osm-server.url=http://www.openstreetmap.org/api
>   laf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
>   plugins=openstreetbugs;remotecontrol;validator;wmsplugin
> 
> Especially interesting is the first line, where it puts WGS84 as default 
> projection. Why is that? Shall we change it to JOSM's default projection 
> (Mercator - EPSG:3857)?
> 
> I would trim this file to
> 
>   laf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
>   plugins=openstreetbugs;remotecontrol;validator;wmsplugin
> 
> everything else takes a proper default value. (Which was not always the 
> case, so I understand it used to be necessary in the past.)

Done (In [o22598]).

I suppose the server build system picks up these changes automatically 
for next tested?


Sebastian



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