[OSM-newbies] big yellow box in JOSM

[John Wolter]

This is a JOSM feature.  Supposedly if you go under
Edit->Preferences->Display Settings you can turn the bounding box on and
off.  I say supposedly because I just tried turning it on and nothing
happened.

On 8/12/07, Immanuel Scholz <imi at eigenheimstrasse.de> wrote:
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> Jeffrey Martin schrieb:
> > I have a yellow box. I can't get rid of it. I don't know where it
> > came from. Could it be a remnant from using the zoom?
> > How do I delete it?
>
> You can't really delete it without modifying the XML file, but you can
> disable the drawing of all boundary boxes.
>
> Please be aware that you don't upload data outside the rectangle except
> you know that it won't conflict with existing data in the server.
> (That's what the box is for: To tell you what data area you downloaded).
>
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>
> Ciao, Imi.
>
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