[OSM-talk] Josm Import Images failing with modified geotiff images

[Clifford Snow]

The US Forest Service offers geotiff images for the US. These topo images
contain creeks, rivers, Forest Services Road and other features desirable
in OSM  The images are a better quality than the ones available in josm.
 They are easily imported into josm for tracing.  However, they are not
perfect. If the images had a transparent background they could be used
along with the Bing images. Much like the TIGER2011 images available in
josm.

Forest Services Web site:
fsgeodata.fs.fed.us/rastergateway/states-regions/states.php

After converting the images to have a transparent background, they do not
load into josm.  The failure is lack of memory with a suggestion to assign
more memory to java. Even assigning all available memory still doesn't
allow the images to load. Each image is around 10 to 14 megs,
only slightly larger than the original. Has anyone else run into this
problem and found a fix? The modified images appear to be correct.  They
load okay in QGIS.

Thanks,
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Clifford
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