[OSM-newbies] Not really a problem (gpx files)

[Mike Harris]

... Robert's work flow is similar to mine (see earlier e-m) - like Robert I
have a job making keyboard short-cuts stick for zooming (zoom out was OK but
zoom in wouldn't stick) until I realised that I didn't need them as the
mouse wheel works just fine for zooming! I download the latest .jar every
day that I do anything with JOSM and simply copy over the previous .jar in
the relevant directory under Program Files and keep a QuickLaunch short-cut
pointing at josm-latest.jar.


Mike Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Helvie [mailto:alimamo at gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2009 12:45
To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-newbies] Not really a problem (gpx files)

As I mentioned before, it is not really a problem for editing, but if you
want to know the steps to see if there may be a problem ...

I open JOSM (I usually download the "latest version" every few weeks), and
open a GPX file from the command menu. The layers box shows three layers, in
order

the Validation errors layer
(said GPX file)
an unnamed data layer

Nothing is displayed, a completely blank edit screen. There are several
things I can do. If I delete the unnamed data layer, the GPX points pop into
view in the default color. Or I can right click the GPX file, choose
'Customize Line Drawing' and then choose 'Draw Lines Between Points For This
Layer' and the GPX trace pops into view. Then I download some osm data, do
my editing on that layer, upload and 'Bob's your uncle'.

Like I said, I usually just download a new version of JOSM and replace the
old one, so somewhere along the way I guess I could have changed something,
and the behavior just keeps getting carried on. But I don't remember
changing anything that might affect the GPX. (I have had a devil of a time
trying to get the zoom in keyboard shortcut to be mapped to the '=' though.
Just can't seem to get it to stick.)

Perhaps next download I'll go through and delete all the JOSM setting files
and such just to see what happens. I have to try and remember where they
are, though. I'm on Vista.

Hope the info helps or at least allays any concern.

Robert


From: "Russ Nelson" <russ at cloudmade.com>

> I cannot reproduce this problem in JOSM version 1345.

> On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Robert Helvie wrote:
>>
>> For some reason it seems that loading a new GPX file into an empty 
>> JOSM just doesn't show the points right away.



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