[OSM-talk] JOSM on a cruel network, help please.

[Chris Fleming]

Gregory wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been into university and now have to connect to the internet 
> through my uni proxy server. It sucks because it's troublesome for 
> everyone to set up and some things don't seem to work.
> I have to make sure I set the automatic proxy configuration script 
> address, and I think some ports are blocked that thunderbird is 
> currently set to use.
>
> Anyway I went for a nice walk this afternoon along the River Wear in 
> Durham, it's so beautiful by my college and theres a national cycle 
> network that needs mapping.
> But I load the track in JOSM, then try to donload OSM data... it times 
> out!
>
> Any help or guidance? I'll go pester the IT service desk monday.
I have to go through a proxy server at work, I use the following to run 
josm:

java -DproxyHost=proxy_host_name -DproxyPort=proxy_port  -jar 
josm-latest.jar

Cheers
Chris