OpenStreetMap
Just saw some JOSM news
>2011-05-16 (4081, 4085, 4086)
>New Follow Line feature to ease drawing of adjacent areas. (similar to Potlatch 2's "F" shortcut)
>Search (and Filter) can query closed ways now, and those enclosing a certain minimum and maximum area. (Keywords: closed; areaSize:MIN-MAX or areaSize:MAX, in m²)
>The download Object... feature now accepts a list of ids.
Can't wait for the next stable release into debian/unstable. If these features work as advertised they will be big time savers for common tasks of mine. Particularly making a new way which shares the nodes as another and downloading a bunch of osm objects given a list of ids.
Thanks to those who contributed these features into JOSM!
Discussion
Comment from olejorgenb on 17 May 2011 at 12:31
You shouldn't wait for the debian release. JOSM is really easy to "install". Simply download the jar and do 'java -jar josm.jar' :)
I have learned the hard way that many debain packages (even in testing) are painfully old. Just recently I wasted close to an hour using the outdated mkgmap package. (yes, should have checked the version earlier)
Comment from giggls on 17 May 2011 at 15:35
No need to wait for a official release or debian package at all I just use this script:
~/ > cat bin/josm
#!/bin/bash
TARGETDIR=$HOME/bin/jar
pushd .
cd $TARGETDIR
wget -N http://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm-latest.jar
popd
java -Xmx512M -jar $TARGETDIR/josm-latest.jar $*
Comment from Harry Wood on 17 May 2011 at 16:48
Speaking of which, somebody should update the wiki on this topic: JOSM/Linux#Debian page. I wrote some vague stuff there. Is someone on top of the situation with the packaged version of JOSM these days?
Comment from aharvey on 17 May 2011 at 21:50
Thanks. I know I can run the jar from openstreetmap.de, but for multiple reasons I prefer the Debian version. Some good folks keep the debian packages up to date with the JOSM tested releases, so once these features make it into the tested JOSM, I should see them.