[josm-dev] Feature Request: Timed Save

[Attila Szász]

On 24 June 2010 12:34, Claudius <claudius.h at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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?
>

I must have overlooked that menu. Sorry for that. :)
However an .osm file won't contain session information, e.g. layer settings,
command history, those would be lost on reopen.
But session information saving is probably a different topic.


> > 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
>
>
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