[OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:25:00 +1100
Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> (And, if my memory
> serves, you get slapped on the wrist for trying to download too much.)

based on a formula which is related to the number of square kilometres
involved, and which has no relation to the amount of data involved.
It is presented as a restriction from the API, whether or not that is
true.

In places where I have been and tend to go I can get the slap on the
wrist described above when in fact there is nil data at all to
download :(