Reporter: immanuel.scholz[at]gmx.de
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.47pm, Friday, 21st July 2006]

James R Glasgow said:

I would appreciate a feature for JOSM that would download gps points
directly from my gps attatched to my computer. then we could add the
nodes, segments, and ways while someone else is driving. I think I could
do a batter job at getting the street names this way.

Imi replied:
I was told that osmeditor support direct NMEA access to serial
interface. I never got it to work though.

For JOSM, I have to say, that I never accessed the serial port from
within Java and that I do not know anything about the NMEA protocol. I
will implement this feature sometime in the future, but given the
complexity, the fact that an other editor support it and the pressing of
many other usefull staff as History or background images, I think it may
take a while... :-| I'm sorry.