[OSM-talk] osmeditor2 and JOSM

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Friday 08 September 2006 12:24, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> The sort of features I would like to add to JOSM if I were to switch are
> the following:
>
> - direct communication with GPS, removing the need for GPSBabel.
> There is apparently an open-source (LGPL) JAR for serial GPS communication
> (see http://www.tegmento.org/gpsylon/#gpstool) making this feasible.
>
> - remove the need for people to know about Map Features, with a drop-down
> selectable list as in osmeditor2.
>
> - an optional display style where ways are rendered in different colours
> according to type, as in the slippy renderer, osmarender, Freemap or
> osmeditor2.
>
> - show POIs as icons (as per the slippy renderer, osmarender, Freemap,
> osmeditor2)
>
> - Landsat, particularly for estimating areas.
>
> - SRTM contours, for estimating features (eg. hills) on private land.

Yes please! :o) I switch between osmeditor2 and JOSM depending on the task, so 
having all the features in one place without it becoming emacs would be very 
useful!

Things I use osmeditor2 for: tracing natural features using Landsat, checking 
the topography.

Reasons I don't use osmeditor2 for everything: it's too jerky and laggy with 
the live update and all that OSM data shown to make editing a very pleasant 
experience for me. I've also not yet worked out how your undoubtedly clever 
way system works - I like JOSM's node-segment-way system.

So if you could merge osmeditor2 features into JOSM in a way that still 
allowed people to use JOSM exactly as they do already (i.e. make all of your 
features options/toggles), that would be super.

In terms of displaying the POIs as icons, colouring map features and showing 
names, I think that should be an extra view mode (like your toggles for 
GPX/OSM/SRTM info) so that I can continue with the very clean, fast JOSM 
view, but also have a quick peek at a kind of "preview" mode to see how 
things are looking, quickly check for mistakes etc (I usually do this with an 
osmarender, which is a bit cumbersome).

Regards,
Tom

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