[Talk-us] Frustrated

[Andrew Ayre]

Update:

When I go to the live slippy map and look at the piece that was deleted 
I see someone added a boundary relation. So the piece is still there, 
but JOSM wants to remove it. Totally confused......

Andy

Andrew Ayre wrote:
> 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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