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Johnwhelan

Mapper since:
October 15, 2009
Last map edit:
June 08, 2025

Latest Diaries

Mapping buildings in Africa or other remote locations

Sometimes I think I’m a bottom feeder going through the map and cleaning up the obvious errors and this comes from my observations over time and cl...

0 comments June 30, 2024

cleaning up after a task manager task

In the ideal world all tasks would be validated to a high standard but unfortunately this doesn’t happen. I’ve seen HOT projects with nearly two t...

7 comments January 01, 2022

Running JOSM on X86 without Oracle's JAVA

Microsoft now offers openjdk which is 64 bit and JOSM runs quite nicely. https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk

17 comments April 13, 2021

Donate/International Bank Transfers to OSMF for membership

OSMF no longer uses transferwise

0 comments July 12, 2020