Don't zoom out to z15 when editing a note

[maro-21]

• Zoom in to z19
• Paste an address of a note https://osm.org/note/xxxxx
• The zoom will change to z15, but what for? I can't edit at this zoom. The zoom should not change or change to z19.

[tordans]

@maro-21 I don't understand your reproduction steps. Could you add some more context and steps?
I wonder if this has to do with zoom changes on osm.org and should be reported there? There where changes to parts of the code that relate to zoom, eg in openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5700 and others.

[tyrasd]

I think the issue is when pasting the note id into iD's search bar.

When clicking on any search result, iD normally tries to "fit" the map to show the full feature (i.e. zooming in to a small feature, or zooming out to fit a large one). For point features (nodes and notes), there appear to be hardcoded zoom values: zoom=20 for nodes and zoom=15 for notes. The level 15 is especially annoying, as it zooms one quite far out (so far that iD does not even render the OSM data anymore).

At first glance, I would agree that just preserving the mapper's zoom level is a better solution for notes. For consistency, the behaviour should then be the same also for nodes. For ways/relations it might also make sense in the case where the feature already fully fits the map at the current zoom level.

[maro-21]

I don't understand your reproduction steps. Could you add some more context and steps?

I wrote the exact steps, but you must of course replace "xxxxx" with a note number.

I wonder if this has to do with zoom changes on osm.org and should be reported there? There where changes to parts of the code that relate to zoom, eg in openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#5700 and others.

It's an old issue and it's been here since notes where added to iD, I think.