[OSM-dev] upload josm files from console

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 9/4/07, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> This reminds me, how does JOSM(-latest) currently handle that sort of
> thing?  I'm doing the relatively massive upload of my county (not that
> my count is particularly dense, but it's far bigger than the uploads I
> usually do., and JOSM is regularly stopping partway through.  I assume
> if I just hit upload again it will resume where it left off, but should
> I be very careful about saving the .osm file regularly (like after each
> connection failure), to prevent it from uploading duplicate
> nodes/segments/ways?  Or will it/OSM prevent that from happening?

You have to be reasonably careful. Most of the difficult part of the
bulk_upload script it to track where it's upto so it doesn't duplicate
stuff if things go wrong. JOSM isn't magic, you have to save the stuff
or it won't know what's been done.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/