[OSM-talk] Southampton Mapping Party : Creating Ways in JOSM

[Nick Whitelegg]

Hello everyone,

Firstly thanks to all of you who turned up to what I think was a 
successful weekend. I will put a GPX image up in the next couple of days.

To those of you who are new to the project (Jodi, Ian, John) I need to 
give you a bit of guidance to editing in JOSM as the way I suggested you 
keep track of street names was by marking waypoints (001, 002 etc).

You need to download JOSM with the waypoints plugin to take advantage of 
this method of surveying. To do this I recommend you download from 
free-map.org.uk.

1. Download JOSM from

http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/josm/josm-1.4-nw2.jar

2. Download the waypoints plugin from

http://www.free-map.org.uk/downloads/josm/waypoints.jar

3. Run JOSM, it will create a .josm file in your home directory (a message 
will tell you precisely where it was created)

4. Quit JOSM again

5. Create a directory "plugins" within your .josm directory and copy 
waypoints.jar to there.

6. Start JOSM again. Select "open" and load your GPX file in. Then select 
"open waypoints file". Your waypoints will appear - they will be auto 
converted to OSM notes.

7. Start editing! Ask me or the list if you run into problems.

Nick