You can find more (general) information about JOSM at its webpage:  http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

Installing JOSM

1. JOSM is a java program, java must be installed on your computer.  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/JAVA

2. Please download the latest (and tested) JOSM package:  http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-tested.jar and place it in a new directory.

3. You can now run JOSM by clicking on this jar package. You can also start it by the command

java -jar josm-tested.jar

4. JOSM have many plugins, you will certainly need some of them. The easiest way to install plugins in JOSM is to open the settings panel, selecting the plugin tab and tick the plugins you want to install.

I would recommend the following plugins:

• livegps
• measurement
• slippymap (?)
• surveyor (?)
• utilsplugin
• wmsplugin

Find more information about plugins here:  http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins

5. First adaptation for making orienteering maps: Changing presets. Download this file (for ISOM):

JOSM/isompresets.xml

Open the settings panel in JOSM and select the map settings tab. Under "Tagging Presets" deselect "Enable defaults" and add a new tagging presets source. In the popupbox write the path to your saved file (if placed in the same folder as the jar-file, this is simply "isompresets.xml"), press OK and restart JOSM.

6. Second adapation for making orienteering maps: Changing stylesheet. This will change the style and colours of the map.

JOSM/comostyle.xml Also need to download all png images, should make a zip file.

Open the settings panel and go to the advanced settings tab. Change the following values:

• mappaint.style: comostyle
• mappaint.icon.sources: comostyle=pngicons
• mappaint.style.sources: comostyle=comostyle.xml

You might optional change these:

• mappaint.icon.enable-defaults
• mappaint.style.enable-defaults
• mappaint.useRealWidth

You can find some more information about  MapPaint

7. Start using JOSM!

Using JOSM

todo

Configure which server JOSM should use

Settings -> Connection Settings (2nd tab). Change Base Server URL

Background images

You might want to use an old map or an aerial photo as background. You have two options:

1. (simple but not recommended). Use the PicLayer? plugin. Download it from the settings menu. Then you can load pictures into JOSM and then move, rotate and scale it. Read the  README

2. Use an  'Web Map Service (WMS)'. With this many persons can use the same image layer, and you only have to position the image once. You may upload your image to a web service;  http://warper.geothings.net/, but this has some limitations (e.g. max file size). You can also put up your own, this is an map rectifier and WMS:  http://svn2.geothings.net/mapwarper/ (not tried)