[OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin... do people want a 'slippy'style interface?

[David Groom]

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From: "Christoph Eckert" <ce at christeck.de>
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Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM landsat plugin... do people want a 
'slippy'style interface?


> Hi Nick,
>
>> Yesterday Steve suggested that the Landsat plugin might be better if
>> it adopted a slippy approach, i.e. as you move round the map, data
>> automatically gets downloaded when you move into new areas. Or are
>> people happy with the current approach of manually downloading data?
>
> of course an autodownload would be cool, but if it is that much work, I
> think there are many other (and more important) occasions to improve
> OSM.
>
> What I miss in the JOSM birthday release: In your custom builds, when
> downloading landsats more than once, the already downloaded landsats
> remained, at least during a session.
> In the birthday release, when I pan around and load a landsat again, the
> previously downloaded landsat gets deleted. Does this "work as
> designed" or is this a bug? If at least my previously downloaded
> landsats did remain (and perhaps a shortcut for opening the download
> dialog could be added), I can live without slippy landsats.
>
> BTW: In the current release of JOSM, the move tool works like a
> selection tool. I cannot move nodes. Does anyone else see this issue?
>

In version 166 (on Windows XP) when you are using the move tool you have to 
have the cursor just over the selected node in order to move it.

David

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