OpenStreetMap
hi diary,
i'm about to take my first steps in OSM.
- checking out general handling of osm.org website
- trying JOSM on ubuntu (standalone and webstart)... i would prefer webstart
also i got quite some tracks on me rather new columbus v-900 logger that i would like to convert to gpx (using gps-babel once i figure that out). i guess they would make a pretty addition to OSMs cycle maps.
lastly i am looking out for leon who should be around here somewhere.
well - lots of stuff to do still ;-)
Discussion
Comment from RussNelson on 27 May 2009 at 06:14
Yes, I love my Columbus V-900 logger, in spite of its flaws. I wrote a program to turn the Columbus pseudo-CSV files into GPX files. Fetch these files ("wget -m --no-parent ..." or "svn checkout ..."):
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gps-tracks/columbus-to-gpx/
Works really well with JOSM. Don't bother with the Ubuntu JOSM package -- it's hideously out of date. The standalone works fine. Just save the jar and then "java -jar .../josm-tested.jar" and you're good to go.
Comment from ProMoFu on 27 May 2009 at 18:56
Cool Russ,
I will check out your converter as soon as i get the time.
I dropped trying the JOSM ubuntu package just after some trial - really out of date - and the webstart version seems to have no (working) support for plugins... but i didn't look into that so far deep enough. so currently i work with that standalone JOSM and it works like a charm.
cheers
jens