[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

[Evan Sebire]

Overall it has less features than JOSM but is still very powerful.  I have 
only used JOSM less than 10 times and each time I end up thinking Java is 
never going to replace C++ for graphical things.
This means placement of nodes, drawing of road/paths is better in Merkaartor, 
and it's interface I think is more intuitive (I'm a Qt person)!
But it lacks some of the feature and plugin tools that JOSM have, and has very 
little support in terms of developers, this just shows what Qt(toolkit) is 
capable of.

One of the main problems I find is that the conflict resolution is not very 
good/non-existant.  For instance if you download a particular area and make 
changes and in the mean time someone else deletes a node that you are working 
with it though a wobbly and only give you the option to ignore, retry or 
cancel.  None of which will help if that node is needed for a road.  JOSM does 
handle this better but not without problems.

My solution is to make small change-sets and upload regularly in the hope 
nothing adverse changes in a short period, which usually it doesn't.

Evan.



On Thursday 27 Aug 2009 13:55:47 Cosmic Charade wrote:
> I have merkaartor - does this have similar capaiblity to JOSM?
> 
> How have you found it?
> 
> Evan Sebire wrote:
> > I use Merkaartor on my laptop and are happy with the speed.  Its a C++
> > app so appears more responsive than  JOSM on my laptop.
> >
> > http://www.merkaartor.org/
> >
> > There are packages for ubuntu or you can compile from source if you have
> > the Qt libraries installed.
> >
> > Evan
> >
> > On Thursday 27 Aug 2009 11:00:29 Sam Couter wrote:
> >> Cosmic Charade <cosmicharade at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on
> >>> mine for some reason.... maybe I installed the wrong version of Java
> >>> or I need to run with some command line options?
> >>
> >> My laptop is lower powered than yours and JOSM works okay. You need the
> >> Sun JRE, it won't work with OpenJDK. The only command line options I use
> >> are to set the HTTP proxy.
> >
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