[OSM-talk] Builk upload OSM files greater than 2megs with JOSM

[Apollinaris Schoell]

you can try the splitter from mkmap project to split osm files in case
increasing the heap size is still not enough.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks,
> for my purposes right now, extending the memory heap size on the
> command line with:
>
> java -Xmx1000m -jar josm-latest.jar
> seems to work great! Thanks,
> Sam
>
> On 3/24/09, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Sam Vekemans
> > <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Some of my sample files are greater than 2 megs, and so i have a hard
> >> time trying to load the file onto JOSM.?
> >>
> >> My approach for uploading all that data once i get it into JOSM is
> >> simple.
> >>
> >> I would select the 1/2 of it, then 1/2 again and delete.  Thus, left
> >> with only 1/4 of the data for the upload process.   Once it all get
> >> uploaded.. i would open the file again (make the other one invisable),
> >> and only select another 1/4 of the data, then upload again.   It wont
> >> matter if the areas overlapped, as the system recognizes that the data
> >> already exists. ... it's the same method as if your doing alot of
> >> editing... and you dont want to get a timeout error, so you only
> >> upload a part of your edits at a time.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if there is a different way to preview these large
> >> .osm files before uploading?
> >
> > You might want to look into bulk-upload.pl - which is much better for
> > handling huge uploads. If you hop on over to the dev list and ask
> > about running imports from a local server (i.e. one in the same
> > datacentre as the OSM db server) you'll get reasonable performance
> > benefits from lower latency between each node/way/relation
> > transaction.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
>
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