[Openstreetmap] Hello, introduction

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Frank Mohr]
> I tried GRASS and Jump with DCW data and some smaller tracks
> (exp. as shape).  GRASS is great but the v.digit editor interface
> isn't really "intuitive".

I gave up grass because of its strange interface, and is now using
qgis to visualize the info instead.


> Jump still has some problems with bigger data sets ... importing a
> 12MB shape file needed more than 128MB memory (Jump is written in
> java and restricts the memory usage on startup, I had to set it to
> at least 512MB to view bigger DCW layers).

Try qgis.  It is capable of importing lots of shape files without
increasing in size.  GPX import on the other hand uses lots of memory.
This is reported upstream,
<URL:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1080051&group_id=55820&atid=478378>.

I use gpx2shp instead to avoid the memory issue with qgis. :)