[josm-dev] OSM Book

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Does anyone know of a reason why I should *not* base the book on the
> current JOSM-latest? Are there any major developments in the wings which
> will change everything completely?

No, but you should give a timeline for the screenshots, so that we can 
clean the translations before. Currently about 100-200 German strings are 
missing, most of them in prominent places.

> The book has 20+ pages on JOSM but still it can only scratch the
> surface; I don't even know if I will have the room to cover the new
> filter feature.

Please not. There is a reason why it is still a hidden option. You should 
tell about the new middle click toggling. Looking at my father this is a 
very important feature in these areas which contain lots of landuses (and 
probably still not widely known).

I do not know the book, but does it tell the users about the online help 
of JOSM prominent enough, so that users really use it when necessary?

> And another thing. If you had room to present four JOSM plugins to the
> newcomer - which four would you choose? The book currently covers WMS,
> Validator, RemoteControl and Surveyor/LiveGPS. But I'm prepared to
> change that if you think another selection would make more sense.

Following list shows current usage (or better installation) count:

As AgPifoJ is now internal, the top plugins include openstreetbugs and 
editgpx. But I would not drop livegps/surveyor, as this is an 
interesting solution which should be shown.

        100 (  1%) czechaddress
        107 (  1%) globalsat
        108 (  1%) ColumbusCSV
        172 (  1%) nearclick
        219 (  2%) michigan_left
        276 (  3%) surveyor
        308 (  3%) ImageWayPoint
        367 (  4%) Create_grid_of_ways
        406 (  4%) livegps
        515 (  5%) walkingpapers
        532 (  6%) plastic_laf
        586 (  6%) tagging-preset-tester
        606 (  7%) AddrInterpolation
        667 (  7%) routes
        729 (  8%) graphview
        772 (  8%) colorscheme
        864 ( 10%) routing
        905 ( 10%) terracer
        952 ( 11%) lakewalker
       1123 ( 13%) slippymap
       1140 ( 13%) cadastre-fr
       1146 ( 13%) waydownloader
       1183 ( 13%) openvisible
       1255 ( 14%) multipoly
       1259 ( 14%) osmarender
       1290 ( 14%) dataimport
       1329 ( 15%) PicLayer
       1372 ( 15%) tageditor
       1425 ( 16%) utilsplugin
       1442 ( 16%) DirectUpload
       1651 ( 19%) measurement
       1824 ( 21%) buildings_tools
       1910 ( 22%) AgPifoJ
       1991 ( 23%) editgpx
       3172 ( 36%) openstreetbugs
       3741 ( 43%) remotecontrol
       5933 ( 68%) validator
       6994 ( 81%) wmsplugin

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