This started off as a project to rework the original JOSM preset to use icons that work better as UI elements for use in vespucci, but has since evolved to be improved in many other aspects.
The icons have been replaced with ones from http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/introduction , http://osm-icons.org, https://github.com/gmgeo/osmic and a handful of ones created by myself.
The links to original icons remain if they currently don't have a replacement, current count is roughly 90 icons that either have not been replaced or are missing.
The preset file contained at last count a good 1'000 individual object presets vs 724 in the original. Extensions to the original JOSM schema are documented on the vespucci site.
Due to the touchy nature of the subject, presets for military objects have been moved out of the default preset to military preset.
Building the actual preset files is done with gradle and should work on both unixy operating systems and windows, the build task will generate the variants in the gen directory.
Building requires xmlstarlet installed and on your path.
The PNG icons are currently assumed to be in icons/png, generating them from SVG requires rsvg-convert to be installed. Currently the recolourand generatePngstasks need to executed, when appropriate, manually.
The presets are being translated on transifex here, to retrieve the translations you will need to install and setup the transifex command line client. You only need to set up your transifex login, you can and should use the language mapping file from this repository.
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