Making geo links open in JOSM (KDE, but desktop agnostic: aka click on coordinates in Dolphin to add a node at location in JOSM)

In Dolphin, KDE’s file manager, a location tags for pictures are helpfully displayed:

In case you always wanted to open them in JOSM, wait no more!

(also, if somebody else but me tested it and confirmed it works on their computer, that would be splendid)

If you install it from the debian repo (and likely any other distribution repo), JOSM is already registered as an application for geo: links out of the box.


This will zoom JOSM to the linked location and add a node there in your current data layer.

Why would you want to automatically add a node in the location? That seems like a source of accidental edits.

I am on Fedora, and I no longer remember why I thought the flatpak version is not optimal. Anyway, yes, it is associated even in my .desktop file I have for JOSM somewhere, but it does not do much - opening a link just opens a new JOSM instance, and does not even load any map, so it is quite useless (does it work differently on your system?). What I documented in the wiki interacts with your running instance and zooms where the photo was taken.

That way I exactly see where the photo was taken. I then usually delete it right away. And anyway, even if not - the node would be empty, so Validation would catch it.