[Talk-us] Frustrated

[Andrew Ayre]

Perhaps I am going about this the wrong way, but I am about ready to 
give up.

<rant>
I started uploading the forest boundaries for Arizona using JOSM. 
Working well so far. However I saw that I made a mistake with one of the 
tags. So now I started re-uploading all my data using my original OSM 
files to correct the tag mistake.

I used my original OSM files because I cannot see a way of downloading 
just my data, even though I have a unique UUID tag for it all. The data 
covers 1000's of square miles and JOSM will only let you tediously 
download it in small pieces, along with vast amounts of other data that 
is not interesting to me.

When I go to upload I am getting conflicts saying someone else has 
modified a primitive. I have a choice to keep mine or use theirs. There 
is no indication in JOSM of which node this is and seemingly no way of 
working out what the change is. So I blindly choose to use theirs - err 
on the side of caution.

I go through this cycle about 20 times and start to see a pattern - 
someone has deleted an entire section of the national forest, even 
though I got this data from the US Forest Service. What?? Am I wasting 
my time with this?

OK, so now I want to see all the changes that have been made and I try 
to update the current data set. Oops. JOSM won't let you do that because 
I haven't downloaded anything. Strange, because it will let me update 
single nodes and selections. However the selections have to be 50 nodes 
or less, which is totally useless. My dataset has maybe 1,000 nodes.

OK, perhaps I can just delete that changed section from my file and 
upload the rest, fixing the tags for that - nope - JOSM wants to delete 
from the server the data I delete. That's not what I want because I'm 
not sure what effect that would have.

So now I'm thinking that maybe I will just leave that incorrect tag in 
there for someone else to worry about, as this is now too much of a hassle.
</rant>

If I am going about this the wrong way please let me know.

Andy

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Andy
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