On 26 Oct 2009, at 16:14, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I have a netbook with me which could run JOSM, I could edit live >> or at >> least at the end of each day. This would keep the frustration level >> low. >> But here is why I ask this here too (and not only in my openstreetmap >> diary): Is it possible to download the osm data for my travel region >> beforhand, >> make edits to it (or to a new layer), and than merge these data >> back into >> the (possible changed over time) osm data on the server? >> >> Is the conflict resolution/checking engine usable to actually fix the >> conflicts, or is it just that it tells me 'forget it'? > > Well where are you traveling to? Unless it's a heavily edited OSM area > you're unlikely to get any conflicts at all. And JOSM has some very > nice "upload selection" features and conflict resolution in more > recent versions which should make uploading back very easy indeed. > > You can download the data for your region in advance e.g. here: > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ > > If I was doing this I'd have the .osm file I was working on in some > version control system while working on it. Git is very good for this > purpose but you may be familiar with others that could suit you > better. >
I'm cringing at the thought of trying loading a large extract into JOSM and expecting it to be able to work quite happily. I would never want to try and work with large areas in JOSM at any time in a desktop or laptop with 4GB of RAM, never mind on a netbook. What is the point of storing the osm data in a version control system? If I was desperate I would download a small group of towns/villages before hand, and then use the update data when I'm online, especially just before uploading. Shaun _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
