[Patch] Show coordinates as East/North

[robert@…]

Hello,

it would be great if josm could show coordinates as East/North (using Lambert projection) instead of Latitude/longitude. That would help a lot in positioning old images from the french "cadastre".

My understanding is that org.openstreetmap.josm.data.coor.LatLon.latToString and lonToString should be adapted to return East and North coodrinates (using org.openstreetmap.josm.data.projection.Lambert).

I'll have a look but as I am no java developper, it will take me quite some time before I get trunk up and running (wasn't there a CLASSPATH thing ? ;-)). So if this is easy and quick done for one of you, please do not wait for me and "just" code it ;-)

Cheers,

tibob

[tibob <robert@…>]

This was easier than I tought... So here is a patch do display East/North coordinates.

This is a bit of a hack because latToString should report a latitude, not "north", but I think it would be much more work to change the whole coordinate system t display east/north...

Cheers,

tibob

PS: I'll do a second upload of the patch in a sec as I inverted east and north.

[bastiK]

The patch looks ok, but does it change the behavior of the program in any way?

[tibob <robert@…>]

Yes, it displays East/North coordinates (in the current projection) instead of lat/lon in the status bar and in the object selection panel.

It ist not very usefull in WGS84, but try it with a Fench Lambert projection (over Paris for example).

It also changes the projection preference window: you can choose to display coordinates in East/North (instead of Degrees). You have to change this preference of course to see the effect of the patch ;-)

tibob

[bastiK]

(In [3067]) applied #4645 - option to show projected coordinates instead of lat/lon (patch by tibob)