Older JOSM News

• 2013-02-06 (5697)
  • roles are suggested in the relation editor and upon creating a relation
  • possibility to filter in the relation list toggle dialog
  • several enhancements of the "Add Value" dialog including a help button, remembering position and the possibility to add several tags in a row without closing the dialog
  • new imagery entry wms_endpoint and rework of WMS/TMS Dialog
  • new validator test for addresses and wikipedia tags and performance improvement in layer painting and error fixing
  • lots of minor enhancements
• 2012-12-08 (5608)
  • new operators nth: and nth% allow to search for position in ways
  • some minor enhancement of remote control and internal presets
• 2012-11-10 (5576)
  • "nautical mile" (NM) is supported as system of measurement
• 2012-10-08 (5531)
  • rework of validator building test
  • some more tags are automatically discarded on upload (TIGER, odbl, yh)
  • code regarding license change was removed
• 2012-08-29 (5482, 5485)
  • imagery providers are suggested, according to the downloaded region
  • when adding tags to nodes, ways or relations, the five last used tags are displayed for quicker selection
  • filter tool has better support for multipolygons
  • You can no longer open a directory in the 'File > Open...'-dialog and load all containing photos automatically. Instead, select the image files directly (using Ctrl-A or Shift-Click). The 'Import images' tool from the context menu of a GPX-layer still works in the old way, so you can recursively load photos by opening a higher-level directory.
• 2012-07-23 (5353, 5356)
  • major bug fixes in handling of data modified by the License change redaction bot
  • small enhancements in map styles and validator tests, including the rendering of inactive layers and the display of names in validator dialog
• 2012-07-03 (5315)
  • major bug fixes in validator, conflict dialog and when merging layers
  • several enhancements in conflict dialog including option to select (double click) and zoom on elements (context menu)
  • several enhancements in validator tests
• 2012-06-04 (5267)
  • nové preklady: Portugalčina (Európska) (pt), Katalánčina (ca)
  • podpora pre špeciálne projekcie
  • presunie tagy do relácie pri vytvorení multipolygónu
• 2012-05-02 (5210)
  • Rôzne drobné vylepšenia
    • alternatívne vyhľadávacie okno je nastavené ako východzie
    • parameter príkazového riadku --load-preferences= pre načítanie konfigurácie JOSM
    • MapCSS umožňuje rozdielne štýly pre pravú a ľavú stranu
• 2012-04-14 (5181)
  • Úvodná stránka josm.openstreetmap.de bola zjednodušená a reorganizovaná
  • Testovaná verzia (5181) bola vydaná s mnohými zmenamy a vylepšeniami, zahrňujúcimi)
    • režim výberu lasom (v expertnom režime)
    • informačné dialógy pre začiatočníkov: varovanie pred nesprávne zarovnaným podkladom, pri spájaní ciest s konfliktnými tagmi alebo ciest ktoré sú súčasťou relácie
    • nová funkcia pri úprave relácie: "Pridať výber do relácie" (pravým kliknutím na reláciu), "Vybrať predchádzajúcu/nasledujúcu medzeru " (v editore relácie)
    • vylepšenie užívateľského rozhrania v menu Zobraziť: "Farebné štýly mapy", možnosť schovať editačnú nástrojovú lištu
    • niekoľko zlepšení pre zrýchlenie štartu
• 2012-02-07 (4905)
  • Pribudli klávesové skratky pre editor relácií: Alt-Up, Alt-Down (posun vybraného člena hore/dole), Alt-Del (zmazanie vybraného člena) a Alt-Home (stiahnutie nekompletných členov)
  • Je dostupná súhrnná história zmien v stabilných verziách.
• 2012-02-02 (4897 ...)
  • Oprava konfliktných klávesových skratiek medzi JOSM a pluginmi. Veľa skratiek bolo zmenených!
• 2012-01-22 (4846)
  • Plugin ImproveWayAccuracy bol integrovaný do jadra. Vyberte cestu, kliknite na a zlepšite presnosť. Viac informácií nájdete v nápovede.
• 2012-01-21 (4791, 4796, 4833)
  • Rôzne rozšírenia funkcionality vzdialeného ovládania: nový príkaz '/load_object' pre stiahnutie objektu podľa id; príkaz '/add_way' pre vytvorenie novej cesty so zadanými koordinátmi; parameter 'new_layer' pre príkaz '/load_and_zoom' spôsobí načítanie dát do novej vrstvy.
• 2012-01-12 (4789)
  • Nový parameter príkazového riadku pre nastavenie ľubovolnej predvoľby pri štarte. (napr. --set=expert=true)
• 2012-01-07 (4767, 4768)
  • Zvýrazňovanie bodov a ciest pod kurzorom sa dá vypnúť: 'Nastavenia...' > 'Nastavenie zobrazenia' > 'OSM Údaje' (iba v režime expert)
  • V režime kreslenia je možné kresliť čiaru pod celočíselným uhlom (30°, 45°,...). Režim kreslenia čiar sa prepína klávesou TAB.
• 2012-01-04 (4765)
  • Automatické skrývanie tlačítok dialógov na pravej strane sa môže deaktivovať zvlášť pre každé okno. (Symbol oka v pravom hornom rohu)
• 2011-12-29 (4745)
  • Pribudol nový príkaz pre načítanie a cachovanie WMS podkladov pozdĺž gpx trasy. (V kontextovej ponuke GPX vrstvy)
• 2011-12-20 (4673)
  • Pre Francúzsko je dostupná projekcia Lambert 93 (EPSG:2154).
• 2011-12-20 (4670)
  • Z dôvodu nedostatočnej podpory boli odstránené Arabské, Islandské a Hebrejské predklady.
• 2011-12-05 (4621-4636)
  • Zlepšený výkon pri práci s rozsiahlymi multipolygónmi.
• 2011-11-26 (4609, 4611)
  • Tlačítka na nástrojovej lište (vľavo hore) sa dajú schovať.
  • Pri kreslení klávesa backspace vráti späť poslednú akciu.
• 2011-11-20 (4601)
  • História verzií zobrazuje stav akceptácie novej licencie u každého prispievateľa.
• 2011-11-15 (4595)
  • Podpora pre viac-dielne klávesové skratky, napr. Ctrl+Alt+S a 1 prepne viditeľnosť prvej vrstvy.
• 2011-11-14 (4593)
  • Menu na malých obrazovkách už nie je orezané ale dá sa posúvať.
• 2011-11-07 (4587)
  • Vo vyhľadávacom dialógu pribudla možnosť pridať tlačítko na panel nástrojov. Odstrániť sa dá pravým kliknutím na tlačítko. (Iba v režime expert mód.)
• 2011-11-02 (4558)
  • Nástroj Zarovnať body na priamku funguje aj pri jednom vybranom bode.
• 2011-10-31 (4553)
  • Interný formát pre ukladanie používateľských dát sa zmenil na XML.
• 2011-10-29 (4546)
  • The text display of nodes, ways and relations can be customized with name templates.
• 2011-10-20 (4530)
  • The ​OsmChange format (*.osc) is now officially supported.
• 2011-10-10 (4512)
  • Expert mode introduced to reduce complexity for new users. For compatibility existing installations are experts by default.
• 2011-10-07 (4497, 4498, 4500)
  • More options in 'File > Download Object...' dialog.
  • History dialog: Better display of inserted / deleted way nodes (and relation members).
  • New shortcuts in properties dialog: Alt+A, Alt+S, Alt+D for Add, Edit, Delete.
• 2011-09-23 (4454)
  • Copy key and value to clipboard by right click in the properties dialog.
• 2011-09-12 (4416, 4423)
  • Bounds of imagery services are displayed on a preview map in 'Preferences > Imagery'.
• 2011-09-08 (4408)
  • Menu item 'Inspect' in context menu of the selection dialog has moved to 'View > Advanced Info'.
• 2011-09-07 (4405)
  • List in 'Preferences > Imagery' is sorted by country code.
• 2011-08-29 (4380)
  • New feature 'Edit > Copy Coordinates'.
• 2011-08-28 (4371)
  • The list of recently opened files shows not just opened, but also saved files.
• 2011-08-27 (4355)
  • Dynamic visibility of button row in toggle dialogs to the right (optional, advanced preferences 'dialog.dynamic.buttons=true').
• 2011-08-22 (4333)
  • Shortcuts to toggle layer visibility (Alt-1 to Alt-9)
• 2011-08-21 (4332)
  • Selection of visible tracks, for each gpx layer (from the right click menu of the layer)
• 2011-08-21 (4327)
  • Select and delete mode now have better visual indication what the next action will do (highlighting, cursor changes).
• 2011-07-18 (4256)
  • Support for the SVG image format.
• 2011-07-14 (4241)
  • Takes Orientation in EXIF header of JPEG images into account.
• 2011-07-07 (4207)
  • GPS traces can be coloured with respect to the direction.
• 2011-06-18 (4142)
  • Extrude Mode: A double click at a line segment inserts a new point.
• 2011-06-11 (4126, 4129, 4134)
  • Memory optimizations and faster drawing of GPX tracks
  • New drawing mode: Add a parallel way next to an existing one. (Shift + P)
• 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.
• 2011-04-18 (4032)
  • Add multiple customized search strings or background layers with its own icon to the toolbar.
  • Update of re-licensing status display in the user list (green check - agreed, gray check - agreed automatically, red cross - disagreed)
• 2011-02-15 (3906)
  • New Map Style Dialog.
• 2011-02-02 (3848-3904)
  • Support for ​MapCSS. (short tutorial, documentation)
• 2011-02-01 (3837)
  • New Viewport Following function - moves the viewport so that the last placed node is in the center. (Main Menu > View; Ctrl+Shift+F)
• 2010-12-12 (3715)
  • Plugins imagery,wmsplugin,slippymap and remotecontrol are integrated into JOSM core.
• 2010-12-07 (3705)
  • Layers can be displayed transparently. (new button in layer list dialog)
• 2010-12-07 (3702)
  • Scaling of objects is supported. (Ctrl+Alt in select mode)
  • info To rotate an object click Ctrl+Shift.
• 2010-11-25 (3669)
  • The Validator plugin has been integrated into the main program.
• 2010-09-23 (3557, #5427)
  • Change in “Extrude” mode (X): When moving in one direction multiple times, no superfluous nodes remain. (Shift key forces the old behaviour.)
• 2010-09-14 (3529)
  • For the tags in the properties dialogue, you can directly open the corresponding wiki-page in a browser.
• 2010-09-03 (o22964)
  • The WMS plugin supports GetCapabilities requests.
• 2010-08-13 (3431)
  • The new Purge command can clean up data layers.
• 2010-07-27 (3388)
  • New tagging preset search dialog.
• 2010-07-20 (3378)
  • JOSM can now recover an intermediate state of your editing in case of a crash.
  • JOSM now requires Java version 6. Users of Java 5 need to use older JOSM versions.
• 2010-06-03 (3306)
  • Search supports searching for role in relation membership.
  • The properties dialog shows position of relation membership.
• 2010-06-01 (3291)
  • Roles defined in presets are now used. This may result in unexpected validator warnings for relations not yet know to JOSM.
  • Members of selected relations are displayed in a different color than directly selected elements.
• 2010-04-16 (3189)
  • With the new Filter feature you can temporarily hide certain kinds of objects.
• 2010-03-15 (3136)
  • The new ​turnrestrictions plugin makes it easy to create and maintain ​turn restrictions at junctions.
• 2010-02-02 (2923)
  • New dialog to download an object by id and optionally all ways and relations that use this object.
• 2010-01-28 (2901)
  • New: Create a duplicate of the selected data layer without a file association.
• 2010-01-06 (2748)
  • JOSM now supports authentication and authorisation with ​OAuth, see OAuth Authorisation Wizard
• 2009-12-31 (2717)
  • Note to former AgPifoJ users: Now you can open images from the main menu (File > Open...) or from the right click menu of the corresponding GPX-layer.
• 2009-12-27 (2689)
  • New Changeset Manager to query, download, browse and manage changesets.
• 2009-12-12 (2616)
  • New Changeset List Dialog displays information about changesets. Changesets can be downloaded, closed and displayed.
• 2009-12-05 (2575)
  • The plugins utilsplugin and AgPifoJ have been integrated in JOSM core.
• 2009-11-24 (2513)
  • Projections support parameters and display projection code and world bounds to user.
• 2009-10-25 (2313)
  • Display of linked state in relation editor now graphical and better understandable.
  • Area names are now also displayed (in light grey) when they fit into the area.
• 2009-09-16 (2147)
  • The plugin panel in preferences now has a search function. You can search through plugin names, descriptions and versions by providing space-separated search terms in any order.
• 2009-09-14 (2133)
  • Numerous shortcuts to the preset menu have been added to the default toolbar.
• 2009-09-13 (2124)
  • JOSM now supports keeping multiple changesets open simultaneously on the server. If you want to change something you notice while making an unrelated change you can now tag that change correctly.
• 2009-09-13 (2118)
  • The preset menu now has a few top-level categories instead of the previous huge list. That should help with using JOSM on smaller screens and finding more easily.
• 2009-09-12 (2109)
  • New middle click handling allows to toggle selection between elements below cursor. This allows much easier selection of overlapping elements.
• 2009-09-02 (2026)
  • When in delete mode the mouse pointer will change depending on the type of object about to be deleted.
• 2009-07-15 (1790)
  • Complete rework of relation editor.
• 2009-07-11 (1767)
  • JOSM plugins now support different versions (at least the SVN managed plugins). Plugin updates no longer cause plugin malfunction.
• 2009-07-07 (1743)
  • JOSM now has easy usable support for external presets and drawing styles. Have a look at Presets and Styles pages.
• 2009-06-28 (1709)
  • Support for element history display inside of JOSM.
• 2009-06-07 (1652)
  • New dialog to resolve conflicts (when changed objects have been modified elsewhere).
• 2009-05-30 (1628)
  • Settings are now stored in UTF-8. Users with non-latin GUI may need to fix own texts or reset configuration.
• 2009-05-19 (1605)
  • JOSM's default projection is now Mercator instead of EPSG:4326 which was previously the default.
• 2009-05-19 (1603)
  • New parent and child search operators make it possible to search for parent and child objects of those objects that match a given search query.
• 2009-02-14 (1405)
  • Lots of improvements in draw mode (double clicking ends drawing). Also switching to All-In-One-Potlatch style is possible in preferences.
• 2009-01-31 (1358)
  • Turn restrictions are displayed in the map, an asterisk next to the relation indicates a problem
  • First step of presets for relations is implemented
• 2009-01-10 (1231)
  • Files can now also be opened by dropping them onto the JOSM window (Drag-n-Drop).
• 2009-01-08 (1213)
  • The search function now supports search using regular expressions.
• 2009-01-03 (1208)
  • The display of node names on the map was enhanced. If no name for a node is given, one of ref, operator or brand is shown instead. Names for unknown features (with no icon) are also displayed now.
• 2009-01-02 (1203)
  • Rendering of multipolygon relations is now supported. The option "mappaint.multipolygon=true" must be set to do so (will be default later). When there is a * before the relation name, then JOSM found an error. Use current validator plugin to display that error.
• 2008-12-25 (1180)
  • This release removes lots of obsolete stuff in JOSM. Old plugins very likely wont work anymore. Update everything.
• 2008-11-28 (1078)
  • If you have the "display boundaries of downloaded data" option enabled (and were until now seeing yellow rectangles for every download), you will now find the non-downloaded area hatched, and the downloaded area clear. This should make for a better editing experience because the actual edit area is not criss-crossed with yellow lines.
• 2008-11-14 (1076)
  • The "align nodes in rectangle" function has been replaced by a more general function that allows you to orthogonalize any shape or line that already is "almost" rectangular.
• 2008-10-29 (1058)
  • Translations of JOSM have been restructured. Language plugins are now obsolete and translations have been bundled with JOSM. Language is determined by the default system locale or the --language parameter.
• 2008-10-05 (1023)
  • WARNING: JOSM now supports keyboard configuration. However, some of the defaults have changed. Please check (and configure) the keyboard shortcuts carefully to avoid losing your work accidentially.
• 2008-08-24 (858)
  • The unglue action has been integrated. The UnGlue plugin is no longer required.
• 2008-08-19 (805)
  • This version has a new drawing mode. Little crosses are shown in the middle of way when using the select tool. When these crosses are clicked, they become real nodes. This reduces mode changes a lot. If unwanted, disable the virtual nodes in preferences.
• 2008-05-20 (643)
  • This version has a minor change to Draw Nodes mode: SHIFT+CLICK now always selects a node when over one (previously it only selected the node when nothing was already selected). This is more consistent, and reduces the number of times you have to switch into Select mode.
• 2008-05-08 (608)
  • Now includes making rectangular shapes by aligning nodes in a rectangle on the Tools menu, and by extrusion using Create Areas mode. Watch the (silent) video showing how to use the extrude mode.
• 2008-05-08 (608)
  • Rubber-band helper line connects last point to prospective next point. To turn this off set the "draw.helper-line" preference to "false".
• 2008-05-08 (608)
  • Status bar gives information about position, angle and length of line segment that will be added.
• 2008-05-08 (547)
  • Now includes built-in support for Audio Mapping with continuously recorded sound tracks