Re: Offline OSM vector file plugin to edit in the field - OBF vector format or other

2017-02-25 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Dirk What I suggest is that JOSM adapt to different operational context out of our northern countries with high speed internet. To navigate with OSM in JOSM should be as easier as smarthpone offline applications for people that need to work offline because of bad / expensive access to

Re: Offline OSM vector file plugin to edit in the field - OBF vector format or other

2017-02-25 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017, Pierre Béland wrote: Smarthphones did provide us access to all of Haiti on OSMAnnd or Maps.Me. Our team was able to store tracks and waypoints on our phones. We did also use Mapillary and ODK tools. But at the end of the day, we could not edit the data in JOSM, bringing

Offline OSM vector file plugin to edit in the field - OBF vector format or other

2017-02-25 Thread Pierre Béland
In the last few weeks, I was in Haiti with either intermittent access to internet or shorten bandwith. In Africa, Haiti and many other countries, access to internet is often difficult and expensive. We either have a narrow bandwith, intermitent or no access. While oing to remote areas in the