[OSM-talk] New Download Dialog for JOSM

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    I would like to solicit your opinion on a new design of the JOSM
> download dialog.

Thanks for soliciting input. I appreciate that.

> I have attached a screenshot of the download dialog, and you can also
> try it in action if you get this JOSM version:

Looks good in general. I would:

1) Further simplify the dialog by putting "data sources" in a separate
tab and have the check boxes there. Otherwise it looks inconsistent.
Does anybody only want to download GPX and not OSM data, ever? If not,
we can get rid of the OSM checkbox alogether.

2) URL from www.osm.org... I don't understand what it does. I know that
is already exists now, but I still don't know. Can we make a (?) link,
that links to some wiki page explaining it? Also why a text area, is a
text box not enough? You just need some space to paste it, really.

3) I object to the naming of the tab "world". It is totally
non-intuitive and doesn't explain it's purpose. Call it "Map Selector"
or something else, but world doesn't cut it.

3b) I also did not know until today that you can pan and zoom the world
map. So a help link/text might be in order there. I never used it myself
though, so I don't feel strongly about it.

4) Already mentioned, a search field would be fantastic. Like enter
"Munich" and it would download a bounding box centered around Munich.
But that is propaply a wish list item for the far future.

Spaetz