[OSM-newbies] newbie to JOSM

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Hillsman" <ehillsman at tampabay.rr.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 3:47 PM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] newbie to JOSM


> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've made my first effort at using JOSM (Mac 10.5.8, broadband  
> connection). It works up to a point, and looks like it will be really  
> useful if I can get past that point. Which is, I have never been able  
> to get the background Yahoo imagery to download and display. Instead I  
> get red tiles containing the text "Exception occurred". Once in a very  
> rare while I can get partial Landsat imagery to download and display,  
> which leads me to believe I actually have figured out the webkit-image  
> and path steps in the installation instructions (I am not very  
> Terminal/Unix savvy), but I have never gotten the Yahoo imagery to  
> display. One of my co-workers has no trouble doing this on his Windows  
> machine at work. I would welcome any suggestions for getting this to  
> work on my Mac.
> 
> Ed Hillsman
> 

have you followed

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin#Mac_OS_X

David