[OSM-newbies] JOSM editing area stretched

[Joosep-Georg Järvemaa]

Thank you both, Richard and Chris,

Mercator looks better indeed :)


And it even works with the WMS server I'm working with.



2010/1/13 Chris Hunter <chunter952 at gmail.com>:
> 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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> Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] JOSM editing area stretched
> Sent: Jan 12, 2010 5:48 PM
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> 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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