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

[Sebastian Klein]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Am 05.08.2010 18:51, schrieb Sebastian Klein:
>> 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.)
> 
> Puh, I've added those a long time ago ...
> 
> IIRC, the projection thing was having round roundabouts vs. right WMS 
> display - but this is really a long time ago and I really can't remember.

The more I was surprised, there were so few complaints about egg shaped 
roundabouts... Only recently in the forum.

> The other things might be only historical and easily removed.

Done. The current installer has only laf=... and plugins=... in the 
default preference file.


Sebastian