[talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

[John Smith]

2009/12/8 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:
>> >JOSM can be used offline,
>
> So far all that's done for me is lose a chunk of edits when they conflicted
> at upload time. :( (I don't really "do" offline anymore...)

There has been a couple of bugs in some versions, but on the whole I
rarely have an issue.

>> you can use it to import data.
>
> Do you do that much? Where do you get it from?

I've been importing postcodes, others have been using it to import
roads in Canada.

> I was surprised how slow JOSM was actually. It may be slightly faster, but
> not much. It also seems to download nearmap imagery even when you hide the
> layer, whereas you can speed up Potlatch that way.

What version of Java did you use and did you give it more than the
default 256M of ram? I tend to give it 1-2G especially when using lots
of image layers that chew up memory.

Flash is much much slower for me.