<div dir="ltr">The OSM database does not support any value over 255 characters, not for tags nor as in this case changeset comments.<div><br></div><div>The solution is to modify the automatically created edit history that iD bases it's changeset comments on.</div><div><br></div><div>For the following solution I assume you are using Chrome or Opera(or whatever Chromium based browser there is nowadays) and have the iD save dialog open.</div><div><br></div><div>Right clicking on the web page should open a context menu with the option "inspect element"(if not there is some developer setting to be enabled in your browser).</div><div>Clicking it should bring up a developer panel, there should be a "resources" tab at the top.</div><div>Clicking it should make a left panel menu available, There should be a "Local storage" option with a sub item(openhistoricalmap url).</div><div>Clicking this item should reveal a few local variables one of them "<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;white-space:pre">iD_<a href="http://www.openhistoricalmap.org_saved_history">http://www.openhistoricalmap.org_saved_history</a></span>"(note: this variable contains all your changes, take a backup).</div><div>Copy the content of this variable into a text editor.</div><div>You should be able to find a few places where the following is found:</div><div><div><font size="1">"imageryUsed": ["URL OR NAME OF IMAGERY"], </font>turn it into <span style="font-size:x-small">"imageryUsed": ["x"], </span>and get back to the browser and enter the new resulting value.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Now try to click the save button. </div><div><br></div><div>It's a bit tricky and a bit technical but it's the only solution I could think of without writing a bunch of JavaScript.</div><div><br></div><div>//</div><div>Albin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-05-29 19:04 GMT+02:00 Susanna Ånäs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:susanna.anas@gmail.com" target="_blank">susanna.anas@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Could anyone help fix OHM iD, or just help.<div><br></div><div>I have made a changeset of 130 edits, and used 5 different TMS aerial images for it. iD will not save the set because the link text for the background layers is too long (over 255 characters).</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Susanna</div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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