Hi Paul, Thank you very much for this suggestion. Glad to know I was not missing something. This sounds pretty straightforward.
Cheers Blake On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Paul Hartmann <phaau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01.06.2017 18:00, Blake Girardot wrote: >> >> Dear JOSM Developers, >> >> HOT is redeveloping our OSM Tasking Manager software and trying to >> improve the osm data validation step in our process. >> >> Of course JOSM is the preferred editor for OSM data validation so we >> are really trying to get our process working best with JOSM first and >> foremost. >> >> I am not a programmer really so that could be the reason I can not >> figure out the answer to my question. >> >> But after reviewing: >> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/RemoteControlCommands >> >> I can not figure out the answer to my question. >> >> Via RemoteControl, can we create a new osm data layer, but not >> download any osm data? We expect the person doing the validation to >> download the data they need manually, but we do want to set them up >> with a blank, empty osm data layer for that purpose. >> >> The reason we want to do that is because we are passing in geometry of >> the area that needs to be validated, but we want to put that data on >> its own data layer with upload=never, then create a 2nd data layer >> that is empty for them to download osm data to for validation. >> >> Is this possible in some way? > > > It should be possible using the "import" command. (Create an empty layer, > save as "empty.osm" and make that file available for download on your > website.) > > Best, Paul > > -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot OSM Wiki - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Bgirardot HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot skype: jblakegirardot Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/