On Mon, October 19, 2009 11:43, Timothy C Litwiller wrote: > No, I'm not sure I just haven't figured out how JOSM works yet. It sure > wasn't intuitive to me from the start so I haven't tried again.
Well, to be honest, my initial reaction to JOSM was similar. However, I prefer JOSM, mostly because I feel 'connected' to the data because the program is running locally. It's too bad that your first impression put you off, and I appreciate you have a free choice in the matter, but I'd recommend you persevere. Having said that, I don't know for sure that JOSM + PicLayer will do what you want, but you won't know until you try. My JOSM editing sessions go like this: 1) Start JOSM 2) Download area of interest 3) Open GPX file from recent trip 4) Add points for POIs and ways 5) Add tags to points and ways 6) Upload I have to say that switching between modes (e.g adding nodes, or selecting nodes) still trips me up occasionally. Also I *hate* having to use the right button to drag the map around (someone please tell me there's an easier way), but that aside, I have found JOSM to be simple but powerful. Note that steps 3 4 and 5 above can be done offline, so you don't need to be connected to the internet while you are working. For step 2 I have my main areas of interest stored as bookmarks in JOSM, so I don't have to select the download area by drawing a box over the slippy map. There is a new JOSM step-by-step guide on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide I followed a beginner's guide like that one, which was tedious as I really wanted to just get on and map stuff, but it was time well spent. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
