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<p>Do we actually need this and want to support it? What are the use cases?</p>
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<p>Another use case which comes to mind is an "osm learning/training" scenario where participants draw some map in JOSM, save it as a local .osm file (rather than uploading it to osm), and then process it via osm2pgsql. I don't know how widespread this is, though.</p>

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