[OSM-newbies] JOSM editing area stretched

[Chris Hunter]

The WGS86 projection "stretches" things along the horizontal compared to the Mercator projection.  

Incidentally, the Mercator projection stretches things along the horizontal the closer to the poles you get. 

IIRC the slippymaps all render using Mercator. 
------Original Message------
From: Richard Weait
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To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
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Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] JOSM editing area stretched
Sent: Jan 12, 2010 5:48 PM

2010/1/12 Joosep-Georg Järvemaa <jgeorg at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> I have attached an image to show how picture in the JOSM editing area
> is not displayed correctly.
>
> Any idea what am I doing wrong?

You aren't necessarily doing anything wrong.  Take a look at your
projection setting (in >>edit >> preferences) and see if you like
Mercator better.

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