Remote Control - Add data layer but not download data?

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Paul,

Thank you very much for this suggestion. Glad to know I was not
missing something. This sounds pretty straightforward.

Cheers
Blake

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Paul Hartmann <phaaurlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01.06.2017 18:00, Blake Girardot wrote:
>>
>> Dear JOSM Developers,
>>
>> HOT is redeveloping our OSM Tasking Manager software and trying to
>> improve the osm data validation step in our process.
>>
>> Of course JOSM is the preferred editor for OSM data validation so we
>> are really trying to get our process working best with JOSM first and
>> foremost.
>>
>> I am not a programmer really so that could be the reason I can not
>> figure out the answer to my question.
>>
>> But after reviewing:
>> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/RemoteControlCommands
>>
>> I can not figure out the answer to my question.
>>
>> Via RemoteControl, can we create a new osm data layer, but not
>> download any osm data? We expect the person doing the validation to
>> download the data they need manually, but we do want to set them up
>> with a blank, empty osm data layer for that purpose.
>>
>> The reason we want to do that is because we are passing in geometry of
>> the area that needs to be validated, but we want to put that data on
>> its own data layer with upload=never, then create a 2nd data layer
>> that is empty for them to download osm data to for validation.
>>
>> Is this possible in some way?
>
>
> It should be possible using the "import" command. (Create an empty layer,
> save as "empty.osm" and make that file available for download on your
> website.)
>
> Best, Paul
>
>



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