[OSM-talk] OSM tutorials for waypoints.ph guys

[Lennard]

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2008, at 15:27, Alex S. wrote:
> 
>> Maning Sambale wrote:
>>> Can I run josm on a usb?
>> There's no reason why not.  However, you should look at this page  
>> first:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/JOSM/HOWTO/Run_from_flash_disk_with_Java
>>
> 
> If the machine that you are going to use, has Java 1.5 or later  
> installed already, then just having the jar on a flash disk will work.

However, if you don't know that in advance, having java 1.5 on the usb 
flash as well will be the safe thing to do, and not very hard to set up.

I've set up such a usb flash using that wiki page, and it works fine. 
Don't use it very much, but when I did use it, it worked, independently 
of having a/the right java install on the (Windows) host machine.

Updating the JOSM version on the usb is also easy: just put a newer 
josm-latest.jar there. Or one of the 'deemed' stable snapshots, and 
change one line in a script.

-- 
Lennard