I thought I'd reply generally to a few replies in this thread. Disclaimer: I'm not a JOSM developer, although I have submitted a few patches and a lot of bugs.
JOSM like most of the OpenStreetMap toolset is developed by well-meaning developers in their free time. The direction the software takes is ultimately a function of what the people that submit code want to work on. If you think JOSM should do something that it doesn't do now submit patches, or at least submit a bug. There's a mention in the thread that JOSM & mkgmap don't run under OpenJDK on NetBSD. Has there been a bug filed for this? I couldn't find any. How is anyone supposed to fix it if there at least isn't a report for the issue? To date I've filed around 300 bugs in JOSM's bugtracker, 170 of these have been fixed. JOSM's developers do care about issues you encounter, but they have to *know about them*. As for the Java 1.6 issue you can continue to run the last Java 1.5 release after the JOSM trunk has moved onto Java 1.6. The developers are putting effort into making sure that the last 1.5 release is stable. Even if you want to follow trunk you can still do that. Just dual-boot Debian[1] or Ubuntu[2] along with OSX and do your JOSM editing there. It's trivial to set up a Mac to dual boot (I ran this setup for years back when Mac hardware was worth the price for me). 1. http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk