On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:08 AM, MP <[email protected]> wrote:
> But Potlatch is much slower, at least for me, once there are several
> thousand primitives in view it will become quite unuseable.


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:22 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/1/24 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>:
>> 3) Poor performance. (On my environment anyway.)
>
> I see the same for potlatch on my environment, especially before you
> can edit I usually have to wait quite a bit for potlatch to download
> geometry (and if download hangs you would add already existing ways).
> If you don't hold half of a big city in the memory JOSM gets quite
> usable also on slower hardware (e.g. I find the performance sufficient
> to edit on a 250 EUR - netbook).

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, if you try
> and use Potlatch to show several thousand objects you are certifiably
> insane. If you want to work in a JOSM-like manner, use JOSM!

Good points.  I think that's a big part of it.  I tend to mostly do
close up micromapping, where only having a screenful of data loaded
into memory is quite advantageous.

I assume there's no way to do "load on demand" in JOSM?

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