Merkaartor: Windows testing releases towards version 0.18.3

Thanks to the efforts from Ladislav Láska (aka https://github.com/Krakonos)) we have recent test builds of Merkaartor (see http://merkaartor.be/ in general) for the upcoming release of version 0.18.3

See the postings on the Merkaartor mailing list from January 2016, there are links (maybe temporary) for 32bit and 64bit Windows exe files:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/merkaartor/2016-January/thread.html

Do you still remember the Merkaartor editor for OSM data? :slight_smile:

Maybe Merkaartor can be interesting on PC where no JAVA Runtime Envoronment is available, what is needed by JOSM …

If you are familiar with extensive OSM data editing, or also with testing a QT based desktop application, why not give a try to these test builds?
Because we need more testing users to find all errors and maybe missing features.

Report any issues on https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor if you have a github account,
or in this thread, also don’t hesitate to ask general questions here if you want.

We also need feedback about translation status of UI text elements … does your language work? and is it complete in translation? (Translations are done via transifex online service.)

It seems that Ladislav now offers Merkaartor nightly builds!

see https://bintray.com/krakonos/nightly/Merkaartor/view for download.

Is there anyone successful with program text translations?

Because German language does NOT seem to work …

EDIT: see mailinglist https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/merkaartor/2016-May/003361.html

for announcement.

Have just realized Merkaartor is still alive, occasionally a new commit appears on github! :slight_smile:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor

Yet the homepage still looks quite dead again, after a short revival 2016.
It’s a pity that the development of this powerful editor has fallen so far behind, for extreme lack of developer time for ages. Perhaps there’s still hope again. What I like is that it needs neither Java nor Flash, and years ago it was the only editor to still run on my ancient computer. But a nightmare was the extremely steep learning curve. Endless trial+error, hardly any other users around which could help, and there’s not even a manual - or so I had thought for a far too long time. And the homepage still gives this impression:
http://merkaartor.be/p/doc
(unless I’m overlooking something, but the page is so bare-bone, it doesn’t even have screenshots anymore)
But there actually exists an old **manual **- over here:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merkaartor/Documentation
In english, german, russian. etc. Certainly important for beginners.
And perhaps it can be added at least as link to the homepage.

yeah,

we have a fresh release of Merkaartor 0.18.4

see http://merkaartor.be

… and finally there is the very fresh release of version 0.19 available,

at least on https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/releases