[OSM-newbies] JOSM help

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 20:36:41 GMT 2009


2009/1/18 Mike Harris <mikh43 at googlemail.com>:
> If I download from OSM, make no changes and then upload I get a message
> saying 'no changes to upload'. If I download from OSM, slightly increase the
> area and download again, I get a very brief download. SO I would guess that
> uploading and downloading are intelligent, i.e. differential only.

Uploads are, downloads not.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Ewen [mailto:jewen at shaw.ca]
> Sent: 17 January 2009 22:09
> To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-newbies] JOSM help
>
> Josm allows you to have multiple layers in memory. Is there a way to copy
> nodes and ways from one layer to another?

The only way I know of is the merge function, but that merges the
whole layer together.

>
> If I download data from OSM, and make changes, do I then upload all the data
> back to OSM, or does JOSM only upload that which has changed?
> Which layer gets uploaded?

I think its the currently selected one.

> James
> VE6SRV

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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