Hello everybody,
I made my first large upload yesterday -Eurotime- and that went not very well. I now have a problem. Before I started uploading I read up on the topic via the OSM wiki and thougth I had everything covered. I guess I was too optimistic. (T-T)
Let's start from the beginning...
(I describe my actions in detail, as it is my first time, you may be able to spot something I did wrong along the way)

I got my hands on a shp file of Burundi administrative borders (permission to use by FAO Africover). I didn't want my first upload overly difficult so opted for JOSM to handle the upload, as I read JOSM would be fine if not attempting large uploads. I decided creating an upload of national and provincial bounderies only this time around. After simplifying and clean-up I was left with some 40,000 objects in the file, quite a reasonable size to my eyes. I spent a few days creating new and editing existing relations for my boundaries, making sure relations / boundaries from neighbouring countries were not broken, then I validated the file and ironed out the errors found.

I noticed the pre-existing borders were not edited in many months, even years, and in the Burundi region is, as far as I could find out, only one active user -someone I stay in contact with- besides myself, so chances for someone starting to edit the boundaries just as I wanted to upload were slim. Just to be absolutely sure, I refreshed the osm-data file one last time, but no problems were found. Then I started to upload. First time uploading JOSM froze up halfway. I restarted, refreshed the file, just in case there was data on the OSM server I needed to clean up. No problems there. For my next try, I decided to upload in chunks of 1024 objects. Everything went smoothly. I checked whether my changeset was registered on the website and there it was, under # 8883488

This morning, on the online OSM map I couldn't find the changes I made . To check I downloaded a small part of Burundi into JOSM and found my edits missing. I then opened my original data file and upon refresh it reported 40,000 conflicts!

Could someone explain to me what went wrong? What should I do to get the data on the OSM server? I'm now stuck with a data file with 40,000 conflicts that I need to solve one-by-one?!

Please, help. Thank you
Arie

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