My life has been really crazy lately so I really didn’t have time to figure out who I was going to vote for for the OpenStreetMap foundation board until the last minute but I did figure out who I did only to find out that the servers for opavote were down so I didn’t get to vote. I also thought I had all of December 5th to vote but it turns out that was the case.

The JOSM restart plugin does not work if you are using Linux and you have a Nvidia Optimus graphics card and you have Bumblebee installed and you are using the command “optirun josm” to run JOSM using the Nvidia graphics card instead of your Intel graphics card

It will work again if you just us the command “josm” to run JOSM

PS while I’m still using the my Nvidia graphics card to run JOSM I’m really not sure if it’s helping rendering the maps or the images from Bing any faster than it would if I was using the Intel graphics card that is integrated into my Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7 CPU

I just went through all of my JOSM plugins that I have installed now and wrote down comments on each of them for a workshop I have coming up. I also threw in a few comments on Plugins that I remember having problems with in the past. Since it’s way to long to use in my presentation I figured I would post it here.

The plugins I use the most are now in bold and I’m also going to update this list if I start using more plugins.

BuildingsTools Can be helpful when setting a buildings size but I’m really not using most of the features this plug in has. However, I believe that Zeromap uses it a lot more than I do.

dataimport if you dig a little you will find out that it only supports TangoGPS and Garmin Trainings Center TCX file formats or at least that what it says in the readme file and here on the Wiki

EditGpx I Never use it, instead I’ve used stand alone programs like Viking or GpsPrune.

ElevationProfile Can be helpful when determining if a street is on an incline or decline.

FixAddresses Not very helpful because if a building has more than one node each node is listed as having its own address. So the list it create are often to long to be useful.

geotools - Was installed by another plugin

GPSBlam I haven’t spent enough time with it to know how to properly use but it sounds like I should.

GPXFilter I’m not sure if this is needed or if it is installed by default.

ImageWayPoint - I might be using it or I might be using another plugin that does basically the same thing I’m really not sure.

InfoMode Can be helpful when dealing with multiple GPS traces a the same time.

jts - Was installed by another plugin

Kendzi3D-jogl - Was installed by Kendzi3D which often caused JOSM to crash so I uninstalled Kendzi3D but it must have left Kendzi3D-jogl behind.

log4j - Was installed by another plugin

MapDust Sounded like it would be really helpful when I installed it but I haven’t been using it.

measurement - I haven’t found this to be very useful

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