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

[Refsvik Kjell Are]

On 26. feb. 2007, at 23.47, Jon Burgess wrote:

> ...
> When you hit the 'download' button in JOSM the default area it selects
> is the bounding box of the screen. Just hit OK and it will download  
> data
> for the area covered by the GPX data visible on the screen at the  
> time.
> There is no need to go off to another map to locate the download
> co-ordinates.

Yey! That is an awesome tip. Thanks a million. Works like a charm.

> If you've covered a large distance in your tracks (say 10+ miles) then
> you may not be able to download all the data at once. Just zoom in  
> to a
> smaller part of your GPX and download just that area initially.  
> Then you
> can pan the map a bit and downloading again to grab some extra data  
> and
> it merge with that already downloaded.

OK. No coverage that large yet, but nice to know for when my mapping  
skills and ambitions grow.

> Occasionally JOSM fails to join up the multiple downloads correctly so
> you may have to save the .osm file, restart JOSM and reloadit.
>
> 	Jon

OK. Thanks for the tip.

Best regards,

Kjell Are Refsvik
Halden, Norway