Basic Kosmos help

Seventy7 · 2009-07-06T09:33:51.000Z

Does anyone know where there is some basic information on Kosmos other than the Wiki which seems out of date and aimed at people that already know how to use it? I’m completely stumped as to how to start!

I also get this error when I try and download OSM data, but I could be doing it completely wrong!

OSM data could not be downloaded: The remote server returned an error: (501) Not Implemented.

Thanks,
Steve

Dave_Stanley · 2009-07-06T11:42:02.000Z

Something to do with the new API last month I think. Maybe there is a new version of Kosmos on the way?

EdLoach · 2009-07-06T12:34:46.000Z

If you are using the latest version of Kosmos (2.5.something) then it should be OK with the 0.6 API, but it reads data from the hypercube XAPI server which has been down for a while:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status

Ed

Seventy7 · 2009-07-06T13:49:45.000Z

Thanks. So does that mean that Kosmos is effectively out of action at the moment?

Vclaw · 2009-07-06T13:58:59.000Z

No. You can download an area in JOSM, then save as an OSM file, then load it into Kosmos.
Works fine (though you limited by how big an area you can download at once).

Seventy7 · 2009-07-07T13:41:26.000Z

ok, thanks, I’ll try that.

Is there any documentation other than the wiki?