[OSM-talk] Putting as little load as possible on the main OSM server

[Niklas Cholmkvist]

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Hi,

in an attempt to put less load on the www.openstreetmap.org server, I
select the link of the bounding box in the mapping application I
use(JOSM) and copy and paste it in my web browser. Then I click on the
export tab and download the data as a file, then I put it into JOSM and
merge it with my existing data.

The other method I used before was to downloaded the data in JOSM by
clicking the downarrow button. Although sometimes it said there's too
much load on the server, and I noticed that using export and then
putting the data in JOSM works more frequently than by downloading the
data inside the application.

Does anyone know if the first method I mentioned(export method) really
puts less load on the main openstreetmap server?

I'm looking forward to your comments
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