Offline OSM vector file plugin to edit in the field - OBF vector format or other

[Pierre Béland]

Hi Dirk and Simon

I think of the standard OSM contributor outside of our northern countries equiped with large and inexpensive internet bandwith. Try to to go outside of your comfort zone and simply use a pre-downloaed OSM file to edit, this without any background image. Even if you use a JOSM MapCSS Color style, you will see how uneasy it is to edit. 

Thats true that we dont need routing info and I believe that an offline OSM image could help to edit in such conditions. Simon POSM proposition looks interesting to provide an OSM offline map for various applications.  
  
Pierre 


      De : Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>
 À : josm-dev at openstreetmap.org 
 Envoyé le : Dimanche 26 février 2017 5h34
 Objet : Re: Offline OSM vector file plugin to edit in the field - OBF vector format or other
   
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Pierre Béland wrote:

> What I suggest is that JOSM adapt to different operational context out 
> of our northern countries with high speed internet. To navigate with OSM 
> in JOSM should be as easier as smarthpone offline applications for 
> people that need to work offline because of bad / expensive access to 
> internet networks.  My experience with smarthpones applications is that 
> they are reliable, they provide fluidity. JOSM Caching is surely not as 
> easy and reliable as these offline maps.  And badly, moving in an area 
> with no internet connection, you realize that your setups are not ok and 
> you have no background imagery.
>
> I agree that Obf is not a standard. The best would be that one standard 
> emerge for offline vector files. In the meantime, what can we do to 
> adapt to all the countries / areas without high internet inexpensive 
> bandwith?

I still have no idea what your issue is.

JOSM is an editor. Displaying imagery and navigation plugins and all that 
stuff is only to aid that functionality, not the main purpose.

For editing you need the raw data, so whatever you want to do, you need to 
download the OSM data for the area you want to edit (beforehand or 
online). If you do mapping on the ground you don't additionally need any 
other maps or imagery.

The only improvement I'd see to reduce bandwidth is a more compressed 
server data exchange (not using XML, but smaller formats) and differential 
data exchange (only transmitting changes).

If I overlook something please explain your use case better.

Ciao
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