Thanks for telling me to try again. I played with it till 2am last night and it does do what I need with respect to the picture layer. It has a steeper learning curve but it looks like it may also have more features that I'll want to use.
On 10/18/2009 10:17 PM, Andrew Errington wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
