[OSM-talk] JOSM display is squashed

[Robert Scott]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Blaž Lorger wrote:
> Use Mercator projection. But be careful. I think you have to use WGS84 for 
> tracing over aerial imagery.

WGS84 is a datum* not a projection. A datum maps points around the earth to lat/lon. A projection maps lat/lon points to the screen/paper etc.

WMS backgrounds work fine on Mercator in JOSM.


robert.

* and a few other things.