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JOSM

Desktop Editor for OpenStreetMap data

JOSM is a feature rich, extensible, offline desktop editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, written in Java.

It supports loading stand-alone GPX tracks and GPX track data as well as editing existing nodes (points), ways (lines), metadata tags (name/value information) and relations (ordered sequence of points and lines) from the OSM database. GPX tracks, are usually downloaded in advance from a GPS receiver or from other sources.

A number of specialised plugins have been written for JOSM, which are available for download and install.

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Core Features

  • Common GIS Desktop Interface tools:

    • Toolbar customization, View control (zoom, pan. etc), styles, icons and layers management.

  • Download and upload OSM vector data.

  • Open local data:

    • NMEA-0183 files: .nmea, .nme, .nma, .log, .txt

    • OSM files: .osm, .xlm, .osmbz2, .osmbz

    • OSM change file: .osc, .osc.bz2, .osc.bz, .osc.gz

    • images (.jpg)

  • Imagery:

    • Visualize basemaps from OSM, Bingsat, Lansat, MapBox satellite, MapQuest Open Aerial or any other WMS sources.

  • Editing Tools:

    • Nodes: merge, join, unglue, distribute, align in circle, align in line, join node to way, and more.

    • Ways: split, combine, reverse, simplify, unglue ways, and more.

    • Areas: join overlapping areas, create multi-polygon, and more.

  • Audio mapping: survey recording management.

  • Photo mapping: survey pictures management.

  • Plugins: A list of specialized plugins are available for download.

Implemented Standards

  • JOSM views WMS layers, but uses the OSM API to communicate with OSM database.

Details

Website: https://josm.openstreetmap.de

Licence: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Note: JOSM plugins may use other licences.

Software Version: r11427

Supported Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac

API Interfaces: Java

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