[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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