[OSM-newbies] josm downloads

[graham]

David Groom wrote:
> Graham
> 
> if it is any help, here is a bookmark file for JOSM containing details 
> for the Hounslow area.
> 
> the file name should simply be "bookmarks"
> 
> I assume that you have not set any bookmarks yet, so dropping this into 
> the relevant directory should cause no problems.
> 
> When its in the directory you can open JOSM,  click the download button, 
> choose the bookmark tab, and select Hounslow.

There's no Hounslow showing up in the bookmark tab (but I am getting the 
right bookmark file as I have all your others - Wales, SW Anglesey, 
Dorking, etc.). Anyway, I manually entered some co-ordinates for 
Hounslow in your bookmark file, and that worked ok. Thanks!

Following that I tried restarting josm and pasting in the url. Now it no 
longer prefills the latitude and longitude boxes, and although my url 
appears ok I get the error message 'no data imported'. On looking at the 
log output I see:

got return: 200
download: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/trackpoints?bbox=0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0&page=0

So it's now just ignoring my pasted-in URL.

I really don't like random behaviour so I'd still like to work out what 
I'm doing wrong.. I know this is a much used program, this flakiness 
surely has to be some problem at my end.

Cheers
Graham
(re- cc-ing to list; hope you don't mind but in my experience when one 
person gets stuck others will too, so it's useful to have it documented)



> 
> The correct directory path to put it in is :
> 
> on Linux:
> 
> ~/.josm/ (e.g. /home/username/.josm/)
> 
> on Windows:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\JOSM\
> 
> 
> David