[OSM-newbies] Avoiding many changesets

[Andrew Harvey]

On 09/04/12 05:09, David Litke wrote:
> A have a dozen or so changesets so far, and I realized I forgot to add the source=survey tag to my edits. If I make this single change, I end up with yet another changeset.

That's fine, just make the changes in a new changeset.

> It seems soon I will have too many changesets to keep track of. Can I avoid this by keeping Potlatch 2 open for a long time while making my original edits (it takes me along time to get everything right)?

> Or maybe it is better to use JOSM, and save my edits locally until I am finished with an area? If I do this, how long is it reasonable to make local edits before I upload them back to OSM (I am worried about conflicts with other users if I keep a local JOSM editing session going for too long).

I wouldn't keep them for longer than a day but it depends how happy you
are to use the conflicts tool in josm and how much editing is going on
in that area by others at the same time.

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