[OSM-talk] gpsbabel and osm (.osm.cc file)

[SomeoneElse]

Roman Neumüller wrote:
>
> Recently I noticed that gpsbabel still uses version='0.5' string in 
> its osm.cc (1).
> Latest josm for example complains now when it does not find 
> version='0.6' string.

It's been discussed on the josm-dev mailing list - see the discussion 
either side of this post:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2014-May/006978.html

>
> I use gpsbabel not very often and don't know about other osm users but
> there might be some .cc developpers which might want to check their 
> code (1).
>
> (1) 
> https://code.google.com/p/gpsbabel/source/browse/trunk/gpsbabel/osm.cc

I had no idea that gpsbabel supported a basic set of Garmin to OSM 
translations - sounds useful (though I, like many mappers I suspect, 
misuse Garmin waypoint symbols for different real-world things, so this 
osm.cc would need a lot of customisation if I was to use it as a way to 
get waypoints into a JOSM layer with most of the right OSM tags).

The change that you linked to was just to just change 0.5 to 0.6 and so 
should have no ill-effects,  but the josm-dev list link above suggests 
other recent changes to the waypoint handling code in JOSM, so there may 
be still some visible differences there.

Cheers,

Andy

(neither a particularly regular gpsbabel nor a particularly regular JOSM 
user - so apologies if any of the above is lacking clarity or accuracy)