[OSM-talk] questions on the JOSM applet

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On 2/13/07, Joshua Marinacci <joshua at marinacci.org> wrote:
> Hi guys. I'm new to the list. I was wondering where I could download the
> JOSM applet and where I could find out the protocol info for it's tile
> server.
>
> A bit of background:
>
> I'm an engineer at Sun and I work on SwingLabs: a set of open source Swing
> components for desktop Java applications and applets. I have been working to
> build a set of mapping components. These components let you quickly build
> mapping applications, draw overlays, attach waypoints, use animations, etc.
> Currently we only support a tileset generated from NASA's Blue Marble Next
> Generation dataset.  This works for some applications but many developers
> are interested in working with street data as well, and my hunt for
> unencumbered street data led me to you.
>
> You can read more about them on my blog entry here:
>
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2006/12/a_mapping_chris.html
>
> Thanks!

Welcome, Josh.

JOSM links and instructions are found here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/JOSM

JOSM doesn't do tiling as far as I know, so you may be thinking of the
"slippy maps" that use the pre-rendered tiles from various sources.
Example slippy maps are here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html
http://www.informationfreeway.org/
http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/

You can select different tile sources by way of the small plus sign in
the top right corner of these maps.

The slippy map source and instructions are here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_map

You'll usually find developers of the OSM tools on irc (and of course
this mailing list).  IRC and other coordinates are here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Contact

And again, welcome.