JOSM

JOSM
JOSM with single OpenStreetMap data layer (standard rendering style)
Original author(s) Immanuel Scholz
Developer(s) Dirk Stöcker and other contributors
Initial release January 22, 2006 (2006-01-22)[1]
Stable release
14289 / October 2, 2018[2]
Repository
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Written in Java (version 8 or later[2])
Platform Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Available in 34[3] languages
Type GIS software
License GNU GPL v2
Website josm.openstreetmap.de

JOSM ( listen ) (Java OpenStreetMap Editor) is a free software desktop editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata created in Java, originally developed by Immanuel Scholz and currently maintained by Dirk Stöcker.[4] It has a lot of advanced features,[5] but also more complicated user interface than default online editor iD.

Features

JOSM road presets menu in German

Some notable features of JOSM are importing GPX files (GPS tracks),[6] working with aerial imagery (including WMS, TMS and WMTS protocols), support for multiple cartographic projections, layers, relations editing,[7] data validation tools, data filtering, offline work,[8] presets and rendering styles.[9] JOSM provides more than 200 keyboard shortcuts for the core functions.[10]

Many additional features (like tools for drawing buildings, adding Wikipedia links or viewing data in 3D) are available through the plugins.[11][12][13][14] There are more than 100 of them in the repository.[15]

History

First changeset was created on 27 September 2005.[16] First beta version (which required Java 5)[17] was made available on 4 October 2005 and JOSM 1.0 has been released on 22 January 2006.[1] Current versioning scheme, using code changeset number, was introduced in 2008.[18]

In 2014 project logo has been replaced with the new artwork, which won a design contest.[19] From this year stable releases are identified with additional YY.MM internal version number (following r6763 - 14.01[20]), however they may not exactly reflect the release date.[21]

Since revision 10786 (16.07) released on 12 August 2016 support for Java versions earlier than 8 has been dropped.[2]

Usage

The highest number of edits in OSM is done using JOSM.[22] The software was used to perform several large scale OSM imports, including TIGER data in the United States.[23]

JOSM can also be used for editing an OSM sister project OpenHistoricalMap.[24] It's included as a package in many Linux distributions like Ubuntu,[25][26] Debian,[27] Fedora,[28] Arch Linux[29] and the OSGEO Live DVD[30]

Various tutorials are available. The LearnOSM Tutorial, translated in 16 languages, has a section on JOSM.[31] It covers the editing process, the tools, the plugins, the presets, the imagery functionalities, conflict resolution and other features.

References

  1. 1 2
  2. 1 2 3 "Changelog – JOSM". Josm.openstreetmap.de.
  3. ↑ "svn - Revision 10787: /trunk/data". Josm.openstreetmap.org.
  4. ↑ "JOSM". Wiki.openstreetmap.org.
  5. ↑ Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M., eds. (2015). OpenStreetMap in GIScience: Experiences, Research, and Applications. Springer. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-319-14280-7.
  6. ↑ Geographic Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. USA: Information Resources Management Association. 2013. p. 546. ISBN 1466620382.
  7. ↑ Maben, Ruth. "Mapping complex features in JOSM using relations". Mapbox.ocm.
  8. ↑ "Comparison of editors - OpenStreetMap Wiki". Wiki.openstreetmap.org.
  9. ↑ Bennett Jonathan (September 2010). OpenStreetMap. PacktPub. ISBN 9781847197504. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "DevelopersGuide/ShortcutsList – JOSM". Josm.openstreetmap.org.
  11. ↑ "LearnOSM". Learnosm.org.
  12. ↑ Chance Tom (March 6, 2009). "OpenStreetMap: the data behind the maps". Linux Weekly News. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Michael Zilske; Andreas Neumann; Kai Nagel (2 September 2015). "OpenStreetMap for traffic simulation". Technische Universitat Berlin Collection. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  14. ↑ F Scioscia; M Binetti; M Ruta; S Ieva; Eugenio Di Sciascio (5 February 2014). "Annotation edition JOSM Plugin, in A framework and a tool for semantic annotation of POIs in OpenStreetMap". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 111, Pages 1092–1101. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  15. ↑ "- Revision 32802". Svn.openstreetmap.org.
  16. ↑ "Changeset 1 – JOSM". Josm.openstreetmap.de.
  17. ↑
  18. ↑ "OpenStreetMap - josmeditor's diary - JOSM reaches version 10000 in its 10th year". Openstreetmap.org.
  19. ↑ "A new logo for JOSM, the Java OpenStreetMap Editor - OpenStreetMap Blog". Blog.openstrretmap.org.
  20. ↑ "2014 Changelog". Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  21. ↑ Legner, Simon (6 November 2016). "16.10 release". The josm-dev Archives. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  22. ↑ "Editor usage stats - OpenStreetMap Wiki". Wiki.openstreetmap.org.
  23. ↑ Nathan Willis (23 January 2008). "OpenStreetMap project completes import of United States TIGER data". Linux.com. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  24. ↑ "Open Historical Map - OpenStreetMap Wiki". Wiki.openstreetmap.org.
  25. ↑ "JOSM". Help.ubuntu.com. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  26. ↑ "JOSM". Ubuntuusers.de. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  27. ↑ "Debian -- Details of package josm in jessie". Packages.debian.org. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  28. ↑ "rpms/josm | PkgDB". Admin.fedoraproject.org. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  29. ↑ "Arch Linux - josm 11826-1 (any)". Archlinux.org. Retrieved 2017-04-06.
  30. ↑ "OSGEO-DVD". OSGEO. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
  31. ↑ "LearnOSM". Learnosm.org.
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