[OSM-talk] Questions from a newbie on editing

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:43:42PM +0100, Laurence Penney wrote:
> * When I load a GPX from the hard drive it looks pretty but seems
> squashed vertically as if the coordinates are not adjusted for latitude.

If you're in the UK, this may be as a result of JOSM using the WGS-84
(Lat/Lon) projection rather than Mercator -- this makes the world look
vertically 'squished' in much of the UK compared to how it's typically
seen in Mercator projections. (I notice this most seriously in the
Regent's Park Inner Circle Road -- it looks more like an Oval than a
Circle in Lat/Long projection, but looks Circular in Mercator.)

However, I don't know for sure that JOSM does use this projection, nor
where you are editing, so I'm not sure.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer