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| Chapter 3 | |
| Getting Started with JOSM | |
| Introduction | |
| In this chapter we will learn step by step how to download and install | |
| JOSM, the Java OpenStreetMap editor. We will change some of the settings | |
| in JOSM to make it easier to use. Then we will open a sample map and | |
| learn some of the basic operations of the software. Remember in chapter | |
| 1 when we asked you to draw a map of your town or village? We will | |
| conclude this chapter by drawing your map again, this time digitally. | |
| After this you should have a good understanding of how to draw maps in | |
| JOSM. | |
| \1. Download JOSM | |
| - ●If you have a copy of JOSM on a CD or usb flash drive, you can skip | |
| to section 2, Install JOSM. | |
| - ●If you don’t have JOSM already, or want the newest version, open | |
| your web browser - this may be Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Internet | |
| Explorer. | |
| - ●In the address bar at the top of the window, enter the following | |
| text and press Enter: | |
| [josm](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/)[.](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/)[openstreetmap](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/)[.](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/)[de](http://josm.openstreetmap.de/) | |
| - ●You can also find this website by searching for “JOSM” | |
| - ●The website should look something like this: | |
|  | |
| - ●If you have Windows installed on your computer, click “Windows JOSM | |
| Installer” to download JOSM. If you have a different operating | |
| system, click on the link for your system. Your download should | |
| begin. In this chapter we will assume that you are using Windows, | |
| but the instructions are similar for other operating systems. | |
| \2. Install JOSM | |
| - ●You may have problems installing JOSM if Java is not already | |
| installed on your computer. If you have problems in this section, | |
| try downloading and installing Java. You can download it here: | |
| [http](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[://](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[www](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[.](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[java](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[.](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[com](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[/](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[en](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[/](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[download](http://www.java.com/en/download/)[/](http://www.java.com/en/download/) | |
| - ●Find the JOSM install file on your computer. Double-click it to | |
| begin setup. | |
| - ●Click ‘OK’, ‘Next’, ‘I Agree’, and ‘Install’. When the installation | |
| is complete, click ‘Finish’ to launch JOSM for the first time. | |
| Later, when you want to start JOSM, you can do so by clicking on the | |
| Start Menu in the lower left corner of your computer, and clicking | |
| the program JOSM. | |
| - ●You may see a window pop up that asks if you want to update the | |
| software. You don’t need to update it since it is new. Press the | |
| button that says “Cancel.” If you don’t ever want to see this | |
| message again, check the box at the bottom before pressing “Cancel.” | |
| - ●When JOSM starts, it will look something like this: | |
|  | |
| \3. Change JOSM Settings | |
| - ●Before we begin using JOSM, it’s a good idea to change some of the | |
| settings so that is will be easier to use. To change the settings, | |
| click “Edit” on the top menu, and then click “Preferences.” | |
|  | |
| 3.1 Add Bing Imagery | |
| - ●We want to be able to use satellite imagery when we are making our | |
| maps, so let’s add that from the Preferences window. On the left | |
| side of the Preferences window there are different icons for | |
| different settings. Click on the icon that says “WMS TMS”. You may | |
| need to click on the down arrow to find it: | |
|  | |
| - ●Click on “Bing Sat”. Then Click “Activate”. | |
|  | |
| - ●You should now see “Bing Sat” in the list below the Activate | |
| button. | |
| 3.2 Add Presets | |
| - ●If you have been given a file that should be added to the presets | |
| menu, you can add it now. For example, a presets file might be named | |
| something like buildings.xml. | |
| - ●You should still have the Preferences window open. If you don’t, | |
| click Edit -\> Preferences to open the window. | |
| - ●On the left side, click the icon that looks like a grid. | |
|  | |
| - ●Click the tab at the top that reads “Tagging Presets”. | |
| - ●In the upper right, press the + button. | |
| - ●Next to the second box on the right, click the button that looks | |
| like a folder. Navigate to the presets file you want to add, for | |
| example, buildings.xml. | |
| - ●Click OK | |
| 3.3 Add Walking Papers Plugin | |
| - ●Later in this guide we will learn about a tool called Walking | |
| Papers, which will allow us to print out a map of an area, draw on | |
| it and take notes, and then load it into JOSM in the background. | |
| Then we can add our drawings and our notes into OpenStreetMap. Now | |
| we will add the Walking Papers plugin to JOSM. | |
| - ●You should still have the Preferences window open. If you don’t, | |
| click Edit -\> Preferences to open the window. | |
| - ●On the left side, click the icon that looks like a plug. | |
|  | |
| - ●Click the button that says “Download list”. The list will download | |
| from the internet, and when it is finished you will see a list of | |
| optional plugins appear in the window. | |
| - ●In the search box at the top, type “walking”. This will show only | |
| items in the list that have “walking” in the title. | |
| - ●Click the checkbox next to the walkingpapers plugin, and press OK | |
| at the bottom of the window. | |
| - ●Walking Papers will now be downloaded and installed. Do not click | |
| “Cancel”. | |
| 3.4 Change Language | |
| - ●JOSM has been translated into many languages. If it has been | |
| translated into your language, you can change it in the Preferences. | |
| - ●If you don’t have the Preferences window open, click Edit -\> | |
| Preferences. | |
| - ●On the left side, click the icon that looks like a paint can and | |
| paint brush. | |
| - ●At the top of the window, click the tab that says “Look and Feel”. | |
| - ●Choose your language in the dropdown box next to the word | |
| “Language”. | |
| - ●Click OK. | |
|  | |
| - ●You need to restart JOSM to save your settings. Click “File” in the | |
| upper left corner, and Click “Exit” at the bottom of the menu. | |
| - ●Start JOSM again by going to the Windows Start Menu in the bottom | |
| left corner. Find JOSM and click on it to start. | |
| \4. Learn Basic Drawing with JOSM | |
| - ●Now let’s open up a sample OSM file which we will use to learn the | |
| basic ways to draw maps with JOSM. Note that this map is not real, | |
| in that it is not a real map of a real place, so we will not save it | |
| on OpenStreetMap. | |
| - ●If you were given a set of files by your instructor, you should | |
| already have the file we will open, named sample.osm. | |
| - ●If you don’t have the file sample.osm on your computer, you can | |
| download it from the internet. Open your internet browser. In the | |
| address bar at the top of the window, enter the following text: | |
| [http](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[://](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[www](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[.](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[learnosm](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[.](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[org](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[/](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[files](http://www.learnosm.org/files/)[/](http://www.learnosm.org/files/) | |
| With your mouse, right click on the file called sample.osm, and click | |
| “Save Link As...” Choose a location on your computer to save the file. | |
| - ●Now let’s open the sample map file in JOSM. Open JOSM. Click the | |
| “Open” button in the upper left. | |
|  | |
| - ●Find the file sample.osm. Click on it, and then click “Open”. | |
| - ●You should now see a sample map, similar to this: | |
|  | |
| 4.1 Basic Operations | |
| - ●To move the map left or right, up or down, hold your right mouse | |
| button down, and move your mouse. | |
| - ●There are several ways to zoom in and out of the map. If you have a | |
| mouse, you can use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out. If you are | |
| using a laptop and don’t have a mouse, you can zoom in and out using | |
| the scale bar in the upper left of the map window. Drag the bar left | |
| and right by holding your left mouse down and moving the bar left or | |
| right with your mouse. | |
|  | |
| - ●Look at the sample map. There a few different types of objects | |
| here. There is a river, a forest, some buildings, several roads, and | |
| a couple of shops. To select an object, click on it with your left | |
| mouse button. | |
| 4.2 Points, Lines, and Shapes | |
| - ●As you click different objects on the sample map, notice that there | |
| are three different types of objects on the map. There are points, | |
| lines, and shapes. | |
| - ●Points are a single location, represented by symbols. On this | |
| sample map, there are two points, a clothing shop and a market. The | |
| clothing shop is represented by a shirt symbol, and the market is | |
| represented by a shopping cart. | |
| - ●There are several lines on the map as well, which represent roads. | |
| If you look closely you will see that within the lines, there are | |
| points as well. These points don’t have any symbols or other | |
| information associated with them, but they help to define where the | |
| line is located. | |
| - ●Lastly, there are numerous shapes on the sample map, representing | |
| different places - a forest, a river, and buildings. A shape | |
| generally represents an area, like a field or a building. A shape is | |
| exactly like a line - the only difference is that the line begins at | |
| the same point where it ends. | |
| - ●You may notice that when you select an object, a list appears to | |
| the right of the map in a window called “Properties”. These are | |
| known as tags. Tags are information that is tied to a point, line or | |
| shape that describes what it is. We’ll learn more about tags in | |
| Chapter 7, Advanced Editing. For now all you need to know is that | |
| this information helps describe whether our object is a forest, a | |
| river, a building, or something else. | |
| - ●Think about drawing a map by hand, and how you are also drawing | |
| points, lines, and shapes. What other places are best represented by | |
| points? Lines? Shapes? | |
| 4.3 Changing Objects | |
| - ●Select the forest on the left side of the map. Be sure to click on | |
| the line around the forest, not one of the points on the line. Now | |
| hold your left mouse button down and drag your mouse. You should be | |
| able to move the forest to a new location on the map. | |
| - ●Click on one of the points on the line around the forest. Hold your | |
| left mouse button down and drag your mouse. You should be able to | |
| move the point. This is how you can change the shape of an object, | |
| or move a point. | |
| 4.4 Drawing | |
| - ●On the left side of a JOSM is a column of buttons. Many of these | |
| buttons open new windows on the right side that provide more | |
| information about the map. The most important buttons, however, are | |
| at the top of these column. These buttons change what you can do | |
| with your mouse. | |
| - ●The top four buttons in this column are the most important. They | |
| allow you to: | |
| - ○Select | |
| - ○Draw | |
| - ○Zoom in | |
| - ○Delete | |
| - ●Until now, you have been using the Select tool, which looks like | |
| this: | |
|  | |
| - ●Before you draw, you need to make sure that nothing is selected. | |
| Click in the black space on the map, where it is empty, to make sure | |
| nothing is selected. | |
| - ●Click on the second button, the Draw tool. | |
|  | |
| - ●Find an empty area on the map, and double-click with your mouse. | |
| This will draw a single point. | |
| - ●To draw a line, single-click with your mouse. Move your mouse and | |
| click again. Continue until you are happy with your line. To end the | |
| line, double-click your mouse. | |
| - ●Draw a shape the same way that you draw a line, but finish the | |
| shape by double-clicking on the point where you started the line. | |
| 4.5 Add Presets | |
| - ●Now we know how to draw points, lines and shapes, but we still | |
| haven’t defined what they represent. We want to be able to say that | |
| our points are shops, schools, or something else, and whether our | |
| shapes are fields, buildings, or something else. | |
| - ●Click on the Select tool, in the column of buttons on the left. | |
|  | |
| - ●Select one of the objects that you drew with the Draw tool. On the | |
| top menu, click “Presets”. Move your mouse through the sub-menu to | |
| the type of location you would like to define. | |
| - ●When you click on a preset, a form will pop up asking you for more | |
| information. You do not have to fill in every field, but you may | |
| wish to add some of the important fields, such as the name of the | |
| object. | |
| - ●When you are finished entering the information, click “Apply | |
| Preset”. If everything went well, your point, line, or shape should | |
| change colors or show a symbol. This is because you have defined | |
| what it is. | |
| 4.6 Draw Your Own Map | |
| - ●Now let’s draw a map in order to practice the techniques you have | |
| learned. You may wish to redraw the map that you drew on paper in | |
| Chapter 1. | |
| - ●Drag the map away from the sample map. Hold the right mouse button | |
| and drag your mouse, until you have a nice empty area to draw on. | |
| - ●Use the Draw tool to create points, lines, and shapes. Describe | |
| what your objects are by selecting from the Presets menu. | |
| - ●When you are finished, you should have your own map, similar to the | |
| sample map that we opened in sample.osm. | |
| Summary | |
| Excellent! If all went well you have learned how to setup JOSM on your | |
| computer, and the basic tools for drawing maps. In the next two | |
| chapters, you will learn how to use GPS and Walking Papers to map your | |
| town or village. In Chapter 6, we will return to JOSM and using the | |
| information we collected, we will add objects to OpenStreetMap. |
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