Editing around +/- 180 east/west

[ghost]

Fiji is suffering quite badly because many OSM tools and editors break here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-16.853&lon=-179.935&zoom=11&layers=M

Vespucci seems to work to some degree but still makes it necessary to pan all
round the world to edit both sides of the small island Taveuni

Any chance to:

• download across +/-180
• pan across +/-180
  ?

[simonpoole]

Well it is "only a small matter of programming" ... and testing, given that this is notoriously easy to get wrong. But it is a low use edge case which is the reason why most editors don't bother. BTW does JOSM work?

[ghost]

no, JOSM may actually seriously damage data when used in this area.

[simonpoole]

Well, no guarantees, but I'll have a look at it.

[ghost]

Thanks:)

[simonpoole]

• allow panning over date line
• split download bounding boxes
• figure out how to handle ways crossing the dateline (perhaps with two nodes at -180° and +180°?)

[jidanni]

Trouble also when panning in the Aleutians. Will probably need two bookmarks to make the jump back and forth. (P.S., don't say dateline, say 180 deg.)