Talk:JOSM

Discuss the JOSM page here. For bugs, ideas, suggestions, see there.

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Help Forum

I haven't been able to find any "official" place to post questions about JOSM. Is there one? If not, I think there should be one,maybe in the form of a forum, with a link provided on the JOSM wiki page and official JOSM website. -Oleklorenc 05:43, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

help.openstreetmap.org is a good place to get your questions answered. You could add a JOSM tag to your question

There's also a 'Questions & Answers' section on the forum.openstreetmap.org.

A long time ago I suggested that the forum should be split into more topics, one of which would be JOSM [1].

-- Harry Wood 14:54, 18 October 2010 (BST)

downloads: image in list

Regarding https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=JOSM&diff=prev&oldid=1075474 vs. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=JOSM&diff=1075884&oldid=1075474&rcid=&curid=1119 : It is semantically more expressive (it is a list of download alternatives and the image belongs only to one of the alternatives) with the inclusion and I do not see that this "looks weird" (Tordanik). But, well, as you like. ;-) By the way: you also reverted my change from image map to the simpler to read wiki syntax. --Aseerel4c26 (talk) 23:20, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm interpreting the semantics a bit differently. In my opinion, it's a "button" for the recommended download, followed by a list of all available downloads with explanation. And I'm surprised that don't see a problem with the aesthetics of an unbalanced list where one item contains a big image and takes a lot more vertical space than the other items, but I guess that's subjective.

I've restored the wiki syntax for the image, though. I had reverted that by accident. --Tordanik 19:32, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment and the partly restoration. Hmm, well, if the button should not be a part of the download options, then the list misses an intro text what this list is about (e.g.: <image> More versions of JOSM are available … <list>). I thought the text before ("You can download JOSM from the JOSM homepage either by browsing there or by clicking the following ... ") should be this intro.

I had changed the list in a similar way also on two other JOSM pages. Of course, I will revert it there too as soon as it has become clear here that the old state is better.

I am interested for more opinions, although the download list setup should really not be consuming too much of our time. :-) Happy mapping! --Aseerel4c26 (talk) 20:05, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

In my opinion, the current situation (with the introduction applying both to the button and the listed links) is sufficiently clear. But I agree with you that this small difference is really not important enough to discuss it at length. I leave it to you to resolve it in whatever fashion you prefer. --Tordanik 01:43, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Automatic version

On wikipedia the version number is automatically pulled from wikidata (Q12877). Is this possible in this wiki too to avoid the monthly updates of the version in this article? --Klumbumbus (talk) 15:17, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Bookmarklets!

This is the front wiki page of JOSM. All wiki pages should be written in clear, simple language for the benefit of newbies who will always be the group who look up wiki pages the most.

So what the hell is a section on Bookmarklets doing here?!? --DaveF63 (talk) 19:55, 13 July 2021 (UTC)

Wiki is used not only by newbies. Maybe bookmarklets section should be better described or moved further down, but "not useful for newbies" is not a reason to remove it. Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 06:44, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Resolved: Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 14:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)