[OSM-newbies] my town can provide me with much better photos than yahoo

[Tim Litwiller]

Thanks for telling me to try again.  I played with it till 2am last 
night and it does do what I need with respect to the picture layer.
It has a steeper learning curve but it looks like it may also have more 
features that I'll want to use.




On 10/18/2009 10:17 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Mon, October 19, 2009 11:43, Timothy C Litwiller wrote:
>    
>> No, I'm not sure I just haven't figured out how JOSM works yet. It sure
>> wasn't intuitive to me from the start so I haven't tried again.
>>      
> Well, to be honest, my initial reaction to JOSM was similar.  However, I
> prefer JOSM, mostly because I feel 'connected' to the data because the
> program is running locally.
>
> It's too bad that your first impression put you off, and I appreciate you
> have a free choice in the matter, but I'd recommend you persevere.  Having
> said that, I don't know for sure that JOSM + PicLayer will do what you
> want, but you won't know until you try.
>
> My JOSM editing sessions go like this:
>
> 1) Start JOSM
> 2) Download area of interest
> 3) Open GPX file from recent trip
> 4) Add points for POIs and ways
> 5) Add tags to points and ways
> 6) Upload
>
> I have to say that switching between modes (e.g adding nodes, or selecting
> nodes) still trips me up occasionally.  Also I *hate* having to use the
> right button to drag the map around (someone please tell me there's an
> easier way), but that aside, I have found JOSM to be simple but powerful.
>
> Note that steps 3 4 and 5 above can be done offline, so you don't need to
> be connected to the internet while you are working.
>
> For step 2 I have my main areas of interest stored as bookmarks in JOSM,
> so I don't have to select the download area by drawing a box over the
> slippy map.
>
> There is a new JOSM step-by-step guide on the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide
>
> I followed a beginner's guide like that one, which was tedious as I really
> wanted to just get on and map stuff, but it was time well spent.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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