[OSM-talk] Slippy map and gpsbabel/gpx (two questions)

Adam Cripps kabads at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 17:07:00 GMT 2006


On 11/19/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 Nov 2006 15:55, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 Nov 2006 15:38, Adam Cripps wrote:
> > > Just a couple of queries (I've been saving them up).
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, how often does the openstreetmap.org/index.html
> > > slippy map update? It seems to be slightly out of date in my area.
> >
> > At the moment it's based on a late October planet.osm, but when the new
> > slippy map code is fully set up it will update very frequently (daily?)
> >
> > > Also, I use gpsbabel to transfer date from my garmin etrex to a gpx
> > > file for use in JOSM. I understand that support for GPX will be
> > > withdrawn in the future.
> >
>
> Sorry, on misreading that, maybe you meant gpsbabel not JOSM?
>
> If that is the case (and it would very much surprise me given that GPX is one
> of the standard GPS formats), remember gpsbabel is an open source (GPL I
> think) application, so the source code for a version of gpsbabel which
> supports GPX will always be available.
>
> Nick

Nick,

I mean the support for GPX for JOSM - sorry to be ambiguous. So, will
JOSM continue to support GPX?

Thanks.

Adam
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