An easy way to increase the area is that after you paste in the URL change the zoom to a lower number (experiment with what works for you). Changing the number will automatically change the bounding box lat and lon values in JOSM.
Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ebling >Sent: 26 February 2008 12:56 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] How to control the area to donwload in josm. > >Hi Dirk, > >I believe the reason that when you copy a URL into >JOSM from the map page, the rectangle is smaller is >because it assumes a smaller screen resolution/browser >window size than I always use. It is hard to think of >a way round this, but I think that JOSM should assume >a higher screen resolution than it currently does. > >The square is the area within which you can be sure >all data has been downloaded. If a way is part in the >square, and part outside, it gets downloaded. This is >the cause of ways extending outside the square. >Remember that other ways and nodes outside the square >will not have been downloaded, so avoid editing ways >outside the square if other ways could be connected to >them, for example - you don't know how it will affect >the other data. Working within the square is safe. > >If you want to define the area in JOSM, you can either >use the slippy map download plugin (i can't remember >the exact name, but it's different from the slippy map >plugin) or you can use other data (eg a GPX track you >have opened in JOSM rather than downloaded) to zoom to >the area you want to work on, then click download. >JOSM defaults to downloading the area currently >visible in JOSM. > >Regards, > >David >--- Dirk Vervoort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I use Josm, but have a question. >> How can I define the area I want do download in Josm >> ? >> When I copy the urls from de view osm the area is >> always less. >> What is de meaning of the square around an area ( >> some routes are going >> outsite this square) in OSM >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dirk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies >> > > > > ___________________________________________________________ >Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it >now. >http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > >_______________________________________________ >newbies mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
