[OSM-talk] New Popular Edition in JOSM

[Nick Whitelegg]

I would like to announce the addition of New Popular Edition support to the 
landsat plugin in JOSM. It works in exactly the same way as Landsat; you 
select New Popular Edition when you're downloading, and when the image has 
downloaded you can adjust its position with the same toolbar button as for 
adjusting the position of Landsat.

Due to changes I made in JOSM itself, and the addition of a third party 
library to convert between OSGB gridrefs and WGS84 lat/lon (Jonathan Stott's 
jcoord) you need a special version of JOSM to run this. This is available at

http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/josm/josm-1.4-nw2.jar
http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/downloads/josm/josm-1.4-nw2.jar

Source tarballs of the modified version of JOSM are available from the same 
locations.

The landsat plugin (it's still called landsat even though it supports NPE 
too... maybe it should be renamed 'wms') that you need is available at:


http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/josm/1.4-nw2/landsat.jar
http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/downloads/josm/1.4-nw2/landsat.jar


A few points to note:

* You'll probably want to make your colours darker and line widths wider in 
elemstyles.xml or in the preferences, so that they show up better against the 
NPE background.

* Due to the NPE alignment issues you probably will have to adjust it 
slightly. You should look at several roads in the area to make sure they're 
all reasonably well aligned.

* It is a little slow so a reasonably fast machine is recommended.

* I've used the source=npe tag when creating ways from NPE maps.

Nick