OpenStreetMap
In a recent discussion with a friend, he told me he still used JOSM v20080713 because that was the version that was pre-compiled and packaged for his distribution version.
Since old versions have some serious problems with the more recent version of the API, I thought I should write this small note to refer to on future cases.
Installing with a package manager is recommended, so you don't have to worry about dependencies, but once that is done, an update should be made.
- Updating JOSM -
* Download tested or latest version of JOSM (wget http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-latest.jar)
* Rename it to josm.jar (mv josm-latest.jar josm.jar)
* Move it to /usr/share/josm (sudo mv josm.jar /usr/share/josm/)
Discussion
Comment from Igor Shubovych on 28 June 2009 at 22:27
This is great of course. I am doing so too.
But wouldnot it be better to put right JOSM to repository?
Comment from gouki on 28 June 2009 at 23:10
Igor,
Thank you very much for your comment. I tried looking for a PPA, but apparently I didn't search properly.
Just found the PPA for JOSM on Launchpad.
PPA: https://edge.launchpad.net/~stephane-brunner/+archive/josm