[josm-dev] start of gwtosm the google webtoolkit port of josm

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Dirk,
>
> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>> I'm not so sure this is true anymore. JOSM's internal structure has been
>> reworked largely and it has a big advantage - it has been tested for a
>> long time and works reliable.
>
> Nothing against JOSM's internal structure but it seemed to me that Avar
> was looking for a rather general OSM library, whereas even today, and
> even if you look at the base layer of objects in JOSM, everything is
> geared towards being an editor - you'll find projected coordinates in
> the node objects, your primitives will have flags saying whether they
> are editable or not, and so on. All this is perfectly OK in the JOSM
> context but I wouldn't want that overhead for general OSM data processing.

The lib is also geared to be and editor. the goal is to make a
webbased thin client for josm.
mike