[OSM-newbies] josm downloads

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "graham" <graham at theseamans.net>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:31 AM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] josm downloads


> Hi,
>
> First time use of josm. I want to download the hounslow area (west
> london). I go to openstreetmap.org and get the url:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=51.47500724483292&lon=-0.35823974430907213&zoom=15
>
> I get the download input box from the connections menu in josm. It comes
> with the url and bounding areas prefilled with lat and lon of zero. I
> delete the url and past in the url above.

Thats exactly what you should do.  I can see no reason why its not working 
properly.

>The min-lat and max-lat boxes
> auto-reset themselves to -22.5, +22.5; the min-lon and max-lon to -45 to
> +45. I can see no sense in this and manually delete the contents of the
> 4 boxes. As I do so, the url I pasted in is reset to mlat 0, mlon 0.
> I empty the 4 boxes, and repaste in the url. There is a red message at
> the bottom 'Download area too large, will probably be rejected by server'.
>

This last message is strange, because the area from the URL posted above is 
a perfectly adequate size, and causes me no problems when I paste it into 
JOSM



> I try to download anyway and get an error message "the maximum bbox size
> is 0.25 and your request was too large. Either request a smaller area or
> use planet.osm" (error message alerts always get sent twice for some
> reason).
>
> I try again, zooming closer, or leaving the contents of the lat/lon
> boxes with the apparently random values they auto-fill with, or trying
> to guess at possible values and enter them manually. Whatever I do I get
> the same result. Eventually I start getting a new error message: "error
> while parsing: attribute name not followed by '='". This is clearly
> wrong: the parameters on the url I'm inputting (above) are visibly ok.
> Restarting josm gives me the same thing.
>
> I haven't tried changing to planet.osm, as I'm not clear how to set that
> up and in any case I want to download gpx traces which the wiki says
> planet.osm doesn't have.
>
>
> I'm obviously doing something stupid; what is it?
>
> Thanks
> Graham
>
>