JOSM developers have been running a logo design contest these past few months, and a few days ago they announced a winner. Here’s the brand new logo for JOSM:
Congratulations to Diamond00744 on a great design!
What is JOSM?
JOSM is the “Java OpenStreetMap Editor”. It’s one of several software options you can choose to make edits to OpenStreetMap. The other popular choice is to edit by simply clicking the “edit” button on the website. This is the “iD” editor. By contrast JOSM must be downloaded. It will run as a separate application on your desktop.
Here is Tordanik’s summary of “the benefits of working with JOSM“:
- Efficiency: edit faster with well thought-out keyboard shortcuts, a powerful search function, filters to hide data you don’t want to edit, and the largest available selection of editing tools of all editors
- Validation: make sure your data is clean before you upload by using the built-in validator
- Offline editing: save your partially completed work locally, work with your private GPS tracks or photographs without having to upload them
- Customization: customize keyboard shortcuts, pick from high-quality plugins for specialized tasks, enable UI dialogs for experimental features, change how the editor’s map rendering looks
- Cutting-edge mapping: get tool support for emerging mapping topics like lane mapping or 3D mapping
There’s disadvantages too of course. Your choice of editor may come down to personal preference. In general iD is designed as a beginner friendly easier experience for our new users on the website, while JOSM is more feature-rich and popular among experienced mappers. This is reflected in the stats which Oli Wan has been maintaining on the ‘Editor usage stats’ wiki page . He observes that JOSM users are responsible for doing the most editing, despite “iD” reaching the largest number of users.
So if you’ve only tried the “iD” editor, and those advantages sound interesting then maybe you should give JOSM a try. There are various guides and tutorials to help you learn, including the JOSM Guide on the wiki and LearnOSM.org , but firstly download JOSM from josm.openstreetmap.de (It’s lovely new logo is now part of the download as of version 7777) The JOSM website also has the issue tracker and code repository.
Thank you Harry !
Nice, but since issue #10540 put JOSM on update hold indefinitely for me it might take a while until I get to see the new logo close-up.
Hmm, I am not sure if I understand your problem, but why don’t you just continue to use the old “XML” style in a current JOSM version? It is still available. Switching between both styles is easy too (I do that often because each has its own advantages).
Probably because I have no idea where map styles might be kept (seeing as how JOSM consists of a single .jar file when I update), or how to load a new one (or even that an older one could be “transplanted” at all – never needed to know any of that to map quite efficiently so far). And the issue in #10540 is that all of a sudden selected points started to look exactly like unselected ones. Not similarly. Exactly the same. Which is another way to spell “invisible”…
JOSM has many map styles built-in. I am often switching between several – depending on what I need to see.
The old style is still built-in. You do not need to do anything to the jar file or config directories. Just get the jar file of the current version (keep a backup of your old version of course) and run it. Then:
1. go into the map paint preferences (screenshot 1: https://help.openstreetmap.org/upfiles/josmmapstyles.png )
2a. select the JOSM old style in the list (screenshot 2: http://help.openstreetmap.org/upfiles/josmmapstyles-selectold.png )
2b. activate it (▶)
2c. OK
3. select the old XML style and deselect the default MapCSS style in the “map paint styles” menu (like in screenshot 1).
Or see https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles . E.g. the new style has style options which are available via a right click on its entry (but only inside the Map Paint Style Dialog Window). For you a useful option may be to disable the “less obtrusive” nodes at low zooms.
Note that it is likely not MapCSS’s fault that it differs from the old style. It may be a work-in-progress or be an intentional design decision by the style authors.
Thank you for the guidance and your patience, this made the latest JOSM usable again for me. Oh, and Merry Christmas! 🙂
JOSM has many map styles built-in. I am often switching between several – depending on what I need to see.
The old style is still built-in. You do not need to do anything to the jar file or config directories. Just get the jar file of the current version (keep a backup of your old version of course) and run it. Then choose the old style – see https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles .
In addition: the new style has style options which are available via a right click on its entry (inside the Map Paint Style Dialog window). For you a useful option may be to disable the “less obtrusive” nodes at low zooms.
Note that it is likely not MapCSS’s fault that it differs from the old style. It may be a work-in-progress or be an intentional design decision by the style authors.
The new logo is gorgeous!
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I am very delighted that a logo is selected to assign the JOSM editor. But the only fault I have noticed is that the logo are the materialization linear and surface but not the point. It is therefore necessary to review this logo to set apart an entire dot to signify that the JOSM can materialize a tree.
thank you