Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, but I am about ready to give up.
<rant> I started uploading the forest boundaries for Arizona using JOSM. Working well so far. However I saw that I made a mistake with one of the tags. So now I started re-uploading all my data using my original OSM files to correct the tag mistake. I used my original OSM files because I cannot see a way of downloading just my data, even though I have a unique UUID tag for it all. The data covers 1000's of square miles and JOSM will only let you tediously download it in small pieces, along with vast amounts of other data that is not interesting to me. When I go to upload I am getting conflicts saying someone else has modified a primitive. I have a choice to keep mine or use theirs. There is no indication in JOSM of which node this is and seemingly no way of working out what the change is. So I blindly choose to use theirs - err on the side of caution. I go through this cycle about 20 times and start to see a pattern - someone has deleted an entire section of the national forest, even though I got this data from the US Forest Service. What?? Am I wasting my time with this? OK, so now I want to see all the changes that have been made and I try to update the current data set. Oops. JOSM won't let you do that because I haven't downloaded anything. Strange, because it will let me update single nodes and selections. However the selections have to be 50 nodes or less, which is totally useless. My dataset has maybe 1,000 nodes. OK, perhaps I can just delete that changed section from my file and upload the rest, fixing the tags for that - nope - JOSM wants to delete from the server the data I delete. That's not what I want because I'm not sure what effect that would have. So now I'm thinking that maybe I will just leave that incorrect tag in there for someone else to worry about, as this is now too much of a hassle. </rant> If I am going about this the wrong way please let me know. Andy -- Andy PGP Key ID: 0xDC1B5864 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
