[OSM-talk] Newbie in need of guidance using the OSM Applet and JOSM

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Refsvik Kjell Are schrieb:

> The question still remains: why do the edited (and seemingly complete  
> road sections, that I have completed) not turn up in the "View mode"  
> of the Applet after the edit is done and uploaded? What do road- 
> sections need in order to be activated and be visible?

The data has to be rendered into map tiles to show up on the "view
mode". This is updated once a week on the mapnik layer and more
frequently for the osmarender layer (switch with the small (+) at the
top-right of the map).
The osmarender layer is updated by the tiles at home Project which has
quite a bit of documentation on the wiki.

> 2. JOSM
> Wanting a more powerful software approach to edit the data I have  
> logged myself (gps track log and photos), I turned to JOSM after  
> reading up on the current state of things on the wiki. After  
> downloading and installing the necessary sw components, I am able to  
> edit my data:
> 
> http://home.online.no/~refsvik/misc/OSM_josmedit.jpg
> 
> Still, I would have liked to use JOSM to merge the data that is  
> already present in the city of Halden, with the data that I have  
> logged myself:
>
> http://home.online.no/~refsvik/misc/OSM_problem2.jpg

That area seems *much* bigger than the area covered by your GPX data.

> ...but when I try to do so, the following error message appears:
> 
> http://home.online.no/~refsvik/misc/OSM_problem3.jpg

You cannot download such a big area.

BTW you can use URLs from the "view" link in JOSM, it will fill in the
data for the bounding box from there.
try
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=59.12233272107037&lon=11.377011775970459&zoom=15
there.

and before adding data in an area be sure to *always* download there
first, you never know when someone else starts mapping there, in which
case it *will* get messy.

HTH
Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie

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