@davidearl and Richard. I'm pretty tired at the moment and I want to give you both better and more in depth answers than I'm ready to give at the moment but I will get back to you. With regards to JOSM though I don't think its bad just really unsuited to my particular workflow.

@ StellanL Yeah, that 7-Eleven being at 711 market made me laugh. You're doing a lot of mapping in the SF area. Are you local? If so we should catch a drink together sometime.

Cheers,
Greg