[josm-dev] Feature Request: Timed Save

[Claudius]

Am 24.06.2010 11:37, Attila Szász:
> Personally I prefer doing a series of edits then I upload them in one single
> batch - probably because I am too lazy to add comments with every upload.
> The other scenario is that e.g. you lose your network connection while
> editing and obviously you don't want to lose your edits by closing JOSM
> down. It would be really handy to be able to "continue" later on.

Save your edits as .osm file?

> A similar third scenario: you are surveying for several days with your
> laptop and you don't have network access. You don't want to keep JOSM open
> for the entire period of time as you want to shut your system down when not
> working to save battery.

Save your edits as .osm file?

Yet apart from that an automatically created autosave.osm would be nice 
indeed.

> By the way, will JOSM detect conflicts when uploading, right?, i.e. when
> somebody else has edited the same primitives while being offline.

Yes. You will be prompted to download the area of conflict and resolve 
them with the help of the... *drumroll* conflict resolve window :)

Claudius