Implausible message: The downloaded OSM area is too big

[Polarbear-j]

I am downloading an area of maybe 10 houses from the slippy map, which works fine. A couple of seconds later I get the message box "The downloaded OSM area is too big. Download mode has been changed to OSM area until the layer is restarted." which I have to confirm with OK, and no further effect. This is quite annoying when making several downloads, e.g. along a road.

Downloading an area of one house, no such message shows.

My suspicion is that the message comes from the Mapillary layer, at least when I delete it, there are no such messages.

However, I checked the Mapillary download settings in the preferences, and they are not influenced by that message showing.

JOSM Revision:12468
+ Mapillary (v1.5.5)

[mdk]

As far as I understood, The error message is not really about the size of the area, but about the size of the data. I don't know where the limit is.
When you start downloading an area, the request is send to the server. The server starts to gather the data. If a limit exceeds, the "The downloaded OSM area is too big." is returned.
In this case you have to choose a smaller area (with less data) to download.

[Polarbear-j]

As said, apparently this has nothing to do with the download of OSM data. They are already downloaded, and 10 houses are only 50 objects.

The message comes afterwards, maybe when the mapillary layer starts fetching image data. The message is confusing in two aspects. First it does not make clear it is a mapillary message, it should not refer to an "OSM area" which is nonsense already. Second it is unclear what the user should do.

[MKnight]

"download osm data continously" is off?

[Polarbear-j]

@MKnight - cannot find such a setting, nor a pref value with such a name.
There is a plugin listed "continuosDownload" (sic) which I don't use.

[Polarbear-j]

Mapillary download is buggy anyway. I have now deleted the mapillary layer a few minutes ago since the cpu went berserk when zooming in/out a bit, but it's still loading (GET ​https://a.mapillary.com/v3/images) in the background. Had to close josm to stop it.

[MKnight]

Replying to Polarbear-j:

@MKnight - cannot find such a setting, nor a pref value with such a name.
There is a plugin listed "continuosDownload" (sic) which I don't use.

Setting is in [File] if plugin is active.

[anonymous]

Ticket #15220 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[floscher]

This is now fixed in the brand new release [​​​https://github.com/JOSM/Mapillary/releases/v1.5.8 v1.5.8], which can now be downloaded via the plugin updater in JOSM's preferences.