The most recent editor discussion, together with the need to try and spend my (increasingly restricted as the autumn goes on) development time most productively, has got me thinking about one or two things. <br><br>I'm now thinking that given that JOSM is already a well developed editor, I'm now coming to the conclusion that it might be better all round for me to add those features which keep me personally using osmeditor2 to JOSM, so that everyone can benefit from those features.<br><br>The sort of features I would like to add to JOSM if I were to switch are the following:<br><br>- direct communication with GPS, removing the need for GPSBabel. <br>There is apparently an open-source (LGPL) JAR for serial GPS communication (see http://www.tegmento.org/gpsylon/#gpstool)<br> making this feasible.<br><br>- remove the need for people to know about Map Features, with a drop-down selectable list as in osmeditor2.<br><br>- an optional display style where ways are rendered in
different colours according to type, as in the slippy renderer, osmarender, Freemap or osmeditor2.<br><br>- show POIs as icons (as per the slippy renderer, osmarender, Freemap, osmeditor2)<br><br>- Landsat, particularly for estimating areas.<br><br>- SRTM contours, for estimating features (eg. hills) on private land.<br><br>Not sure what the feeling amongst existing JOSM users, and particularly Imi, is for such features - but if people are happy for me to add said features to JOSM, I'll do so. Any UI design/usability ideas would be very useful, as I think others are stronger in this area than I am.<br><br>We could then offer a fairly straight choice of editors for users, Potlatch or JOSM, which should cover most needs.<br><br>Given the quite large number of users who want to use a 100% Open Source environment, it would also be of benefit to make it compatible with GNU Classpath or other open source Java VM.<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Nick<br><p>
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