[OSM-talk] Newbie - queries and usability suggestions

[Ed Davies]

Barry Crabtree wrote:
> zooming in/out of the map is a bit odd. I use a mouse with a scroll wheel -
> scrolling one way zooms out. The other zooms in. The zoom is focussed on the
> current mouse postion, so you can pan with a wierd zoom out/in action. Would
> be nice if there were a pan.

Drag with the right mouse button down to pan.

JOSM is a little bit unconventional in not having a context menu
but it allows pretty efficient editing.  Basically the selected
tool seems to activated by the left mouse button, click or drag
(or either, for select) as appropriate.  The scroll wheel controls
zoom and the right button does pan all the time which is pretty
easy to get used to.

It took me a while to get used to the scroll wheel direction.
In Firefox and many other Linux GUI programs Ctrl-scroll forward
makes the picture get smaller (i.e., you're pushing the page
away).  In JOSM, on the other hand, scroll forward makes the
picture get bigger (you're moving the camera forwards).  I tend
to feel JOSM's a bit more logical except that it is actually
inconsistent with the way panning works.  With panning, the
mouse gesture moves the picture, not the viewpoint.

However, when you look closely at Firefox and co they seem
to be a bit inconsistent on the interpretation of the scroll
wheel anyway so it's really not a big deal.

As far as I know the middle mouse button (often, clicking
the scroll wheel) doesn't do anything in JOSM?  Is that
right?

Ed.