you can try the splitter from mkmap project to split osm files in case increasing the heap size is still not enough.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, > for my purposes right now, extending the memory heap size on the > command line with: > > java -Xmx1000m -jar josm-latest.jar > seems to work great! Thanks, > Sam > > On 3/24/09, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Sam Vekemans > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Some of my sample files are greater than 2 megs, and so i have a hard > >> time trying to load the file onto JOSM.? > >> > >> My approach for uploading all that data once i get it into JOSM is > >> simple. > >> > >> I would select the 1/2 of it, then 1/2 again and delete. Thus, left > >> with only 1/4 of the data for the upload process. Once it all get > >> uploaded.. i would open the file again (make the other one invisable), > >> and only select another 1/4 of the data, then upload again. It wont > >> matter if the areas overlapped, as the system recognizes that the data > >> already exists. ... it's the same method as if your doing alot of > >> editing... and you dont want to get a timeout error, so you only > >> upload a part of your edits at a time. > >> > >> Does anyone know if there is a different way to preview these large > >> .osm files before uploading? > > > > You might want to look into bulk-upload.pl - which is much better for > > handling huge uploads. If you hop on over to the dev list and ask > > about running imports from a local server (i.e. one in the same > > datacentre as the OSM db server) you'll get reasonable performance > > benefits from lower latency between each node/way/relation > > transaction. > > > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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