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

2017-02-26 Thread mgwebmail
Hi, Even in the northern countries there are places without internet access. I recently was confronted to such a situation and I successfully used JOSM to map a region based on GPS traces I collected on the field. I had downloaded existing OSM data and cached aerial photographies beforehand

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

2017-02-26 Thread Dirk Stöcker
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017, Pierre Béland wrote: 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

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

2017-02-26 Thread Simon Poole
Wasn't POSM supposed to solve this problem? :-) Sorry for digressing. In any case JOSM can already render "raw" OSM data, so supporting one of the rendering/routing data formats would seem to be unnecessary. You really only need to be able to apply a map style that is similar to a conventional