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

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