2008/8/13 Norbert.J.Girardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At lat='49.50218451651357' lon='8.604470651502528' I tried to draw a square > of 20 by 20 meters as precisely as JOSM permitted. > > Have a look at what JOSM shows. This is not MY idea of a square ;-) > > Both, measurement plugin and the information line at the bottom of the JOSM > screen agree that this "building" is 20x20 meters.
Your building is 20x20 meters (I just checked the maths, roughly, on the coordinates in the osm file). Unfortunately, it just doesn't _look_ like it. JOSM can use different projections for producing the 2D picture in front of you. If you go to Edit -> Preferences and switch it from 'EPSG:4326' to 'Mercator' and restart JOSM, it will look more like your idea of a square. It's the same shape on the ground in both, but projected differently. Unfortunately, I think EPSG is still the default due to some issues with the WMS plugin in other projections. Link below - somebody please correct me if this isn't true anymore. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2007-November/000419.html Tom _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
