Can't download map data in JOSM (403 error)

General talk
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Hi,

I’d taken a short break from mapping and come back. I was successfully using JOSM 20080713-1 on Ubuntu Linux 9.04 but now whenever I try to download map data I’m getting a 403 (forbidden) error. Potlatch works fine and I can log in here so I’m sure my account credentials are OK. Has anybody else seen this behaviour or know a fix? I found a couple of possible related threads in the German board but my German isn’t good enough to understand them.

Thanks,
Paul.

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Is it possible that the version Ubuntu offers is not yet compatible with API 0.6, which has been deployed in April? Try manually downloading and running a current version of JOSM from josm.openstreetmap.de.

Unfortunately, the Ubuntu packaging strategy of allowing feature updates for software only every 6 months doesn’t really work well for a rapidly evolving software as JOSM. (Btw, is it really as old as 2008-07-13? If it is, it’s even worse than 6 months.)

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I get frequent bug fix downloads and since this now doesn’t work I’ll class it as a bug. I’ll contact the person that maintains the Ubuntu package for JOSM and tell him the package is broken and ask for an update. In the meantime I till try the new version and see if that works.

Thanks,
Paul.

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New build does work. The build on Ubuntu is a “community maintained” build which means it’s looked after by a volunteer rather than by a staff member at Canonical (Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor) I’ll try to contact them.