Remot control "select" regression

[tomas]

Is it just me, or it used to be years ago that select action on load_and_zoom (f.e. load_and_zoom?select=way12345) would DOWNLOAD the specified object and zoom to its extent?

Currently "select" action just tries to select an already downloaded object with a given ID. So if I want to download and check an object X I have to know its geometry, specify a bbox which would cover at least one node of the object and then I can select. Therefore simple action as given below (with a single "select") becomes something like this:

load_and_zoom?top=55.758&bottom=55.757&left=25.464&right=25.467&select=way12345

Remote control in our case is used for QA checks. And new(?) behaviour is inconvenient because of some reasons:

1. It downloads more than the object required
2. When creating a clickable error list we need to include not only object type/id, but also a bbox

Thank you

[GerdP]

I'm not an expert but I think you need load_object, not load_and_zoom. The latter requires the bounding box.

[tomas]

Thank you, you're right, this one does the trick:
load_object?objects=w12345

I've missed the main remote control documentation page: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/RemoteControlCommands#load_object