The JOSM version in the repos is rather old, so probably stumbles over some Bing-API change that took place since the LTS release.
As the rest seems to be working fine, I decided to live with it and stay with the version from the original repo.
On the other hand, as JOSM is a java application it may be easy to install it in parallel in the user’s directory. Perhaps I will try that and report here.
I first downloaded the current .jar file from https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
(josm-tested.jar v.8339 in my case)
This I saved to a suitable subdir beneath my user directory ($HOME/bin/josm)
Then I created a little shell script in the same directory (named josm.sh) with the following content:
!/bin/bash
java -jar $HOME/bin/josm/josm-tested.8339.jar
This will start java with the josm application. To be runable, it also has to be set as executable:
chmod a+x josm.sh
This script can now already be used to start josm from the command line
$HOME/bin/josm/josm.sh
For convenience I also added an entry to my K-Desktop Starter-Menu (right click on the “K”- edit menu items or similar), that points to the josm.sh script.
I don’t know how this last step is done with Ubuntu’s Unity desktop though…
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Comment from Mateusz Konieczny on 12 May 2015 at 06:30
1) Update JOSM 2) report a bug to JOSM bugtracker (see instructions at http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket)
Comment from Schnatterfleck on 14 May 2015 at 05:18
I see the same here with my Kubuntu 14.04.
The JOSM version in the repos is rather old, so probably stumbles over some Bing-API change that took place since the LTS release.
As the rest seems to be working fine, I decided to live with it and stay with the version from the original repo.
On the other hand, as JOSM is a java application it may be easy to install it in parallel in the user’s directory. Perhaps I will try that and report here.
Comment from Schnatterfleck on 16 May 2015 at 03:44
Ok, it’s relatively easy.
I first downloaded the current .jar file from https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ (josm-tested.jar v.8339 in my case) This I saved to a suitable subdir beneath my user directory ($HOME/bin/josm)
Then I created a little shell script in the same directory (named josm.sh) with the following content:
!/bin/bash
java -jar $HOME/bin/josm/josm-tested.8339.jar
This will start java with the josm application. To be runable, it also has to be set as executable: chmod a+x josm.sh
This script can now already be used to start josm from the command line $HOME/bin/josm/josm.sh
For convenience I also added an entry to my K-Desktop Starter-Menu (right click on the “K”- edit menu items or similar), that points to the josm.sh script. I don’t know how this last step is done with Ubuntu’s Unity desktop though…
Comment from mustafakamil on 27 June 2015 at 21:11
thank you my friends josm.jar work with me