NAME¶

josm - Java OpenStreetMap Editor

SYNOPSIS¶

josm

DESCRIPTION¶

josm is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap written in Java 6. OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. It allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.

OPTIONS¶

-h, -?, --help

Show help.

--version

Display the JOSM version and exit.

--geometry=widthxheight(+|-)x(+|-)y

Standard X geometry argument.

[--download=]minlat,minlon,maxlat,maxlon

Download the bounding box.

[--download=]url

Download the location at the url (with lat=x&lon=y&zoom=z).

[--download=]filename

Open a file (any filetype that can be opened with File/Open from the GUI).

--downloadgps=minlat,minlon,maxlat,maxlon

Download the bounding box as raw GPS.

--selection=searchstring

Select with the given search.

--[no-]maximize

Launch in maximized (or minimized) mode.

--reset-preferences

Reset the preferences to the default.

--load-preferences=url

Load preferences from the given url (in XML format).

--set=key=value

Set the preference key to value.

--language=language

Set the language.

JAVA PROPERTIES¶

The following options can be set by using Java system properties (i.e. -Dkey=value passed to java, or specified inside JAVA_OPTS).

josm.home=path

Set the JOSM home directory to path. This will contain all user settings. Default is ~/.josm/.

ENVIRONMENT¶

JAVA_HOME

Specify an alternate Java environment.

JAVA_OPTS

Specify Java options. For example, to use a HTTP proxy server with this program, set this environment variable to something like JAVA_OPTS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=yourProxyURL" before starting josm.

AUTHOR¶

josm was written by Immanuel Scholz. The current maintainer is Dirk Stöcker. This manual page was written by Andreas Putzo <andreas@putzo.net> and David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>, and is licensed under the same terms of JOSM itself (currently, the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later).