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JOSM

JOSM is a maps and navigation program, available on Windows and Linux: GPS track recording.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

JOSM is a maps and navigation program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: GPS track recording.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Java OpenStreetMap Editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It supports loading stand-alone GPX tracks and GPX track data from the OSM database as well as loading and editing existing nodes, ways, metadata tags and relations from the OSM database.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

JOSM is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

JOSM is an extensible off-line editor for OpenStreetMap (OSM) written in Java. It supports loading stand-alone GPX tracks and GPX track data from the OSM database as well as loading and editing existing nodes, ways, metadata tags and relations from the OSM database.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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