:Author: OSGeo-Live
:Author: Javier Sanchez, GeoNaTec
:Reviewer: Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft
:Version: osgeo-live6.5
:License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

.. image:: ../../images/project_logos/logo-josm.png
  :alt: project logo
  :align: right
  :target: http://josm.openstreetmap.de

JOSM
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Desktop Editor for OpenStreetMap data
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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 JSOM, which are available for download and install.

.. image:: ../../images/screenshots/1024x768/josm_inteface.png
  :scale: 55 %
  :alt: JOSM Editor.
  :align: right

Core Features
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* Common GIS Desktop Interface tools:

  * Tool bar 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
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* JOSM views WMS layers, but uses the `OSM API <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6>`_ to communicate with OSM database.


Details
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**Website:** http://http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

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

**Software Version:** r7347

**Supported Platforms:** Windows, Linux, Mac

**API Interfaces:** Java

**Support:** http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile


.. Quickstart
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.. * :doc:`Quickstart documentation <../quickstart/josm_quickstart>`