Use Mercator projection. But be careful. I think you have to use WGS84 for tracing over aerial imagery.
Blaž On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:18:57 d f wrote: > Hi > > I've downloaded some data to JOSM but the data is squashed in appearance in > the north-south direction. It causes inaccuracies when I map. For instance > i drew a rectangle at about 45 degrees, but when it showed in mapnik it > looked like a parallelogram. > > I've downloaded the latest Java & JOSM. > > Any ideas for a solution? > > Cheers > Dave F. > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk