Update: When I go to the live slippy map and look at the piece that was deleted I see someone added a boundary relation. So the piece is still there, but JOSM wants to remove it. Totally confused......
Andy Andrew Ayre wrote: > 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 [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
