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 of bad / expensive access to
internet networks. My experience with smarthpones applications is that
they are reliable, they provide fluidity. JOSM Caching is surely not as
easy and reliable as these offline maps. And badly, moving in an area
with no internet connection, you realize that your setups are not ok and
you have no background imagery.
I agree that Obf is not a standard. The best would be that one standard
emerge for offline vector files. In the meantime, what can we do to
adapt to all the countries / areas without high internet inexpensive
bandwith?
I still have no idea what your issue is.
JOSM is an editor. Displaying imagery and navigation plugins and all that
stuff is only to aid that functionality, not the main purpose.
For editing you need the raw data, so whatever you want to do, you need to
download the OSM data for the area you want to edit (beforehand or
online). If you do mapping on the ground you don't additionally need any
other maps or imagery.
The only improvement I'd see to reduce bandwidth is a more compressed
server data exchange (not using XML, but smaller formats) and differential
data exchange (only transmitting changes).
If I overlook something please explain your use case better.
Ciao
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