[OSM-talk] JOSM wishlist: forget and undo download

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Sometimes I download a little too much into JOSM. I don't know the 
> default memory size for the JVM, but my machine only has 512 MB 
> RAM anyway and JOSM starts to get slow when I edit .osm files that 
> are larger than 5.5 MB.  If I edit things in one region, such as 
> one half of a city, or an island near a mainland coast, I 
> sometimes download parts of the mainland or other half of the city 
> by mistake.
> 
> This is when I wish I could "undo" one download batch.  Or make 
> JOSM "forget" that it downloaded an area that I select.
> 
> I could in theory simulate this by saving the .osm file, use a 
> text editor to edit out the objects from that area, and load the 
> .osm file into JOSM again.

This feature was requested Yesterday by Matthias Julius :-)

Sounds like a popular one. I've added it to JOSM's trac:
http://josm.eigenheimstrasse.de/ticket/148

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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