[josm-dev] OSM Book

[Frederik Ramm]

Dirk,

Dirk Stöcker 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.

I guess I will have to explain that translations are on a best-effort 
basis and that English texts will pop up every now and then. The book 
will go to print end of Jan., but since making the screenshots is a lot 
of work (loading demo data and all) I want to have them finished 
mid-Jan. the latest. If the occasional English text remains, that's not 
too bad (if I find it extremely annoying I can still fix it myself).

>> 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.

Not even hint at it... ;-)?

> 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 remember I implemented that once (as left-click toggling) when Imi was 
still the boss. I then retracted the patch after I saw that we had the 
middle click selection box which was sufficient at the time. But yes, 
that is a good feature.

> 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?

I don't think it does "promiently"; will check.

> 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.

Is editgpx really used in the OSM context or is it more something that 
people use to manage their local GPX collection? Guess I'll have to 
install it, maybe it helps me in doctoring the GPX examples I need for 
the book ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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