[Openstreetmap] Problems using the osmeditor

[Nick Whitelegg]

> Nope.  I expected the program to know the location of the file I
> loaded.  I'm testing that now.  I get it to work with one of the
> included GPX files, but not my file.

It's not that clever yet, I'm afraid :-) It's the sort of thing that would be 
quite easy, but I wanted to get the main features - the track/waypoint stuff 
- done first.

> It would be nice if the program showed the coordinates of the center
> point, to give some idea about the displayed location.

True. Will add to the todo list :-)

> > Sometime in the next few days I hope to upload the latest version
> > with the Landsat stuff included, as well as removing all the
> > internal references to the OSGB coordinate system.
>
> I look forward to seeing the landsat stuff.  Why not just commit it to
> svn right away?  I'm more than willing to debug it. :)

Will do once I've done one or two tweaks so it actually keeps track of the 
landsat data when you move around. At the moment it basically just grabs it 
where you are... but doesn't change when you move around the map.
Should be done later today or tomorrow.

> > Re: the XMLRPC, I'm moving away from being able to display
> > openstreetmap with the editor now; focusing more on having it as a
> > lightweight GPX editor and putting that functionality into the
> > applet code base.
>
> Oh, please do not remove the XMLRPC stuff just because I had problems
> with it.  I've since been able to get it to work.  My initial problem
> was building the program without XMLRPC support.  This made the 'Grab
> track' menu option useless without any messages stating so.  I've
> commited fixes to get it to give a warning that XMLRPC is disabled
> when this is the case.  I was able to log into OpenStreetmap.org after
> enabling XMLRPC.

The reason why I've been tending to move away from incorporating xmlrpc into 
osm-editor is the lack of many C++ xmlrpc client libraries. There is one 
leading one, xmlrpc-c, which is ok to compile on linux but the dependency 
list looks like it might be hairy on windows. My experiences of attempting to 
compile open source software on Windows has not been good to date... Windows 
a more user friendly platform? Hmmm! :-) 

I've been looking more towards a standalone version of the applet for XMLRPC 
client stuff, since Windows is less of a headache for Java than it is for 
many open-source C/C++ libraries. However if you'd like it left in as a 
feature of the app I will do.

> Are you on #geo on IRC?  I'm 'pere' there.

Have to admit, I've no experience of IRC. What's the best/easiest client for a 
Linux/KDE environment?

Nick