openstreetmap/iD

Traces: Edit map: Zoom to trace, not to text

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#8,498 opened on May 16, 2021

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Description

When opening e.g.,

the window should be zoomed to the (magenta) track, not the (white) text.

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Yes, there probably is a third, hidden, consideration. But this is the user's impression of what is going on.

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Research direction
Investigate how the editor initializes the map view when a GPX trace is loaded via the 'gpx' URL parameter. Find the code that calculates the bounding box to fit the map and see if it uses the trace geometry or the label text geometry. Adjust it to use the trace geometry for zooming.
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javascript
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frontend
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2
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1-3 hours
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