The JAVA issue comes up as many use work machines and since JAVA has been identified by the US government as a security risk some time ago many organisations do not permit it's installation on their equipment.
Which means in simple terms you can't use the building_tool plugin when mapping buildings and with new mappers that hurts data quality. Cheerio John On 17 Feb 2018 1:18 pm, "Mike N" <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 2/17/2018 11:01 AM, James wrote: > >> except it wouldnt be multiplatform and only run on windows 🤢🤮. Java is >> a better alternative as it's a popular language and is multiplatform. C/c++ >> is a bit more complicated and not everyone can contribute. >> > > That's no longer true - .Net is open source and generates multiplatform > code and the C# language has an open source reference. > > That being said, Java is quite suitable for JOSM, and the security issues > would rarely if ever surface in JOSM. The big question is how well does > JOSM serve as an OSM editor? Quite well by a number of indicators. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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