A have a dozen or so changesets so far, and I realized I forgot to add the source=survey tag to my edits. If I make this single change, I end up with yet another changeset. It seems soon I will have too many changesets to keep track of. Can I avoid this by keeping Potlatch 2 open for a long time while making my original edits (it takes me along time to get everything right)? Or maybe it is better to use JOSM, and save my edits locally until I am finished with an area? If I do this, how long is it reasonable to make local edits before I upload them back to OSM (I am worried about conflicts with other users if I keep a local JOSM editing session going for too long).
I'm not sure I understand the premise. There's nothing wrong with committing your changes (as a new changeset) periodically while editing, except when there are maybe features that are actually incomplete enough to be incorrect in them (e.g. untagged ways, unclosed areas, etc.). Saving more often results in fewer opportunities for conflict, too. In general, there's nothing inherently expensive or wrong about creating 10 changesets for 1000 changes instead of 1.
And I definitely recommend JOSM :)
Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
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