[OSM-talk] JOSM download based on slippy map

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Tue Oct 23 13:44:41 BST 2007


Or you can, of course, just type a name into the namefinder plugin which 
is essentially a huge database of bookmarks.

David



On 23/10/2007 13:44, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Here's an idea, I'm not sure how viable/silly it is. Could JOSM use  
>> some picture
>> of the planet that you could draw a bounding box around, rather  
>> then having to
>> fiddle with lat and long numbers? Think of the slippy map at zoom  
>> near 1 or 2,
>> and being able to draw a box on that.
> 
> There is a "world" tab in the JOSM download dialog, and you can even  
> zoom in there. However before you've reached a area that is small  
> enough for a successful download, the display becomes pretty blurred.
> 
> That's where Tim Haussmann's slippy_map_chooser plugin comes in and  
> does more or less exactly what you wanted:
> 
> "Adds a new download dialog that allows to select the download  
> rectangle on the slippy map. With this plugin it's possible to  
> download ways and gpx logs without knowing the coordinates of the  
> desired download rectangle - just navigate to the desired area by  
> zooming and moving the slippy map, mark the area with a rectangle and  
> click download."
> 
> http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~mim103/slippy_map_chooser.jar
> 
> Nifty, eh?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 





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