[OSM-newbies] Starting with JOSM and OpenStreetMap in general

[John McKerrell]

On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:00, graham wrote:

> Rick Collins wrote:
> Graham wrote:
>>> If you are just concerned whether your upload has gone into the  
>>> database
>>> correctly, a simple way to check is to open josm, load in the raw  
>>> gps
>>> file for the area so you establish a bounding box, and hit 'download
>>> from osm' in the 'connection' menu. You should get a copy  of your
>>> uploaded ways back from the database.
>>
>> Yes, I have done that.  But I don't really know much about what I am
>> seeing.  I find a lot of data.  It looks like all of the tracks I
>> have uploaded are there.  They seem to show as dots.  I also see some
>> much lighter dots with light lines joining them.  Are these light
>> lines and dots the way that I created?  My main concern is
>> determining if I have added information to the way in the correct
>> manner.  I did not find clear info on how to do that so I am not sure
>> I did it correctly.
>>
>
> It sounds like you may not have mappaint, which is helpful for using
> josm (gives you coloured ways more like the rendered ones). It's a
> plugin, available by going to preferences then selecting the  
> electrical
> plug symbol on the left. That should give you a list of plugins you  
> can
> install. There is also a 'validator' plugin which tries to tell you
> whether your ways etc are done correctly (since the rules are  
> generally
> in flux, the validator does its best but may complain about things  
> that
> you think are actually right).

Actually I thought it sounded more like non-mappaint, but with the  
GPX layer selected not the data layer. If you have the layers panel  
showing on the top right (by clicking the 7th button down on the  
left), click on the line that says something along the lines of "data  
layer" (can't check exactly at the moment as the API's down). Then  
the data should show up in colours and any GPS traces will just be  
grey in the background.

John