As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m working on moving the JOSM plugin repository from svn to git.

I’ve managed to get something for most authors, but I am still missing attribution information for 47 authors with 95 commits between them.

If you have previously contributed to the JOSM plugin svn repository or the OSM svn repository (which used to include the JOSM plugin svn repository), please reach out to me via OSM messages or email ([email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]) if the attribution for your contributions is missing or wrong.

What I need from you:

• The name you want your patches to be attributed to
• The email you want your patches to be attributed to
  • As a reminder, this email will be publicly visible via git history. GitHub and GitLab both have noreply email addresses if privacy is a concern for you.
  • Grant Slater (firefishy) has the map used for migrating http://svn.openstreetmap.org/ to git. This will likely be used as a “last resort”; if the attribution from that conversion is OK, then no action is necessary.
• Optionally, the timezone offset for your patches (UTC±offset)

Notes on the conversion:

• patch by <foo> commits have been modified such that the originator (“<foo>”) is shown as the author, while the committer remains unchanged.
• Doesn’t do much to reduce repo size – git lfs could be used for this prior to the final conversion
• The dist directory for plugin releases has been excluded from the test repository due to size constraints
• Does not split plugins into their own repositories. This can be done later.
• plugin externals were converted to submodules; if a plugin had externals in it, those were not converted

WIP Repositories (please do not fork these; I may rebuild them at any time as I get new attribution information):

• JOSM core: https://github.com/tsmock/josm
• JOSM plugins + jmapviewer: https://github.com/tsmock/josm-osmsvn-svn2git

A few weeks ago, I wrote a plugin for PMTiles for JOSM. PMTiles is a web-first tile storage format which allows the provider to have a single file with all the tiles they want to share. Users can then make direct requests using HTTP Range Requests to get just the data they want. With this, other OSM users have discovered that they can run a tile server for <2 USD/month.

As of Aug 28, 2023, the JOSM MapWithAI plugin now supports PMTiles and Mapbox Vector Tiles as data sources. Please note that no tag transforms are occurring, so if you do use the data, please use the replacement tags feature of the plugin. With that said, it is theoretically possible for a pmtiles file to give us the mappings; the specification has a JSON metadata field which can have arbitrary key value mappings.

Anyway, here are some known datasets to test out this functionality (I only tested the overture-pois.pmtiles file):

• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/buildings_z13.pmtiles
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/land.pmtiles
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/placenames.pmtiles
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/places.pmtiles
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/roads_z11.pmtiles
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-with-daylight/tiles/water.pmtiles
• https://r2-public.protomaps.com/protomaps-sample-datasets/overture-pois.pmtiles
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msbarry/planetiler-overture-demo/main/boston.pmtiles

As a reminder, there is a reason why the overture data has not been imported into OSM, mainly quality concerns. So if you do use it, ensure that whatever it is you are adding actually exists (for POIs) or is geometrically correct (for buildings/roads).

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