Installation

No installation is required. OSM can be run from any folder on your computer; however, it is recommended you place it in a directory with no spaces, such as C:\OSM\VersionNumber\

Windows 8 or higher is required for Win-64 and Win-32 bit versions.

The portable versions may be run on any operating system if the Microsoft's .Net 6.0 Runtime is installed; however, operating systems other than Windows have not been well tested. The portable versions also provide access to the OSM API for development of user interfaces or other third-party applications.

For Working with OSM Input Tables

· Microsoft Access 2000 or higher can be used.

· Alternatively, DB Browser for SQLite (Verion 3 or higher) is free and highly recommended when Microsoft Access is not available, or tree list records are very large (millions).

For Viewing and Writing OSM commands

Notepad++ is free and highly recommended.

OSM Command files can be more easily viewed with Notepad++.

Open your OSM command file in Notepad++ and switch the editor language to Python to greatly improve visual display of commands, colored comments, foldable regions, etc.

Note that while the OSM command line looks a bit like Python, it is not Python.