[josm-dev] JOSM interface for Tagwatch, OSBugs etc.

[Stefan Neufeind]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> would you be able to please include a possibility to download data 
>> from osmxapi using tagwatch? Currently links from tagwatch (e.g. for 
>> Europe) point to a download for an osm-file which you can then 
>> manually load into JOSM. However such a link would allow to click on a 
>> mis-spelled tag you find in tagwatch and instantly correct+upload it. 
>> (e.g. I've lately found "namee" which actually meant "name" in the 
>> list etc.)
> 
> Well the tagwatch script would either have to be changed to emit 
> "localhost:8111" links, or you would have to make a little Greasemonkey 
> script that rewrites them. JOSM doesn't come into the picture at that 
> point; JOSM does not see these links unless they actually point to the 
> localhost port.
> 
> Do the tagwatch links actually contain a bounding box, or is it just an 
> OsmXAPI link that contains keys/values? I would be a bit unhappy about 
> downloading only selected objects from OsmXAPI because you would never 
> know what was around them, so if you e.g. delete a node you would not 
> see if it was perhaps used by something else etc., so a bounding box 
> download would be very much preferred...

Hi,

what I did use to "browse" used tages is
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Europe/En/tags.html
which points to e.g.
http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/*%5BTankstelle=*%5D
(fetch everything with key "Tankstelle") or so which afaik is a redirect 
to osmxapi then. No bounding-box. Where it's just a typo (e.g. 
"nameeeeeeeeee" instead of "name" I correct them right away. In other 
cases I zoom into the various regions where object appear in JOSM and 
select that part to download everything for the current zoom-boundingbox.

So what would be needed would imho basically be a possibility in your 
plugin to also pass those querys to OSMXAPI (without giving a 
bounding-box!). We could then either add another link to tagwatch or, as 
you said, use a Greasemonkey-script, which is also fine with me. But 
that would save from downloading multiple .osm-files and opening them in 
JOSM one by one.


Regards,
  Stefan