[OSM-talk] JOSM Name Finder Plugin

[Andy Robinson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>Sent: 18 May 2007 3:59 AM
>To: Talk Openstreetmap
>Subject: [OSM-talk] JOSM Name Finder Plugin
>
>Hi,
>
>    I have tied David Earl's name finding service into the JOSM download
>dialog via a simple plugin. If you have a JOSM version downloaded on 18
>May or later, installing this plugin should give you an extra tab on the
>download dialog called "places", where you can enter any string and then
>select from whatever David's service returns.
>
>This is really just a proof of concept and there is a lot that can and
>should be improved. I mainly intended this as a proof that my mechanism
>for plugins to add new tabs to the download dialog is really working
>(and as an example of how to do it), and I would be quite happy if
>someone would make this into a nice & polished extension (or make an
>entirely new name finder to replace this one).
>
>It's in SVN, under applications/editors/JOSM/plugins/namefinder. There's
>also a jar file for those who do not want to compile it themselves, but
>note you will need the newest josm-latest.jar for this to work!
>

Great, works a treat.
Thanks to David for the excellent indexing and additional related
information that comes with it and thanks to Frederik for getting it
implemented in JOSM so quickly.

Gets my vote for the most useful new tool of the month.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson

>Bye
>Frederik
>
>--
>Frederik Ramm  ##  eMail frederik at remote.org  ##  N49°00.09' E008°23.33'
>
>_______________________________________________
>talk mailing list
>talk at openstreetmap.org
>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk