[OSM-talk] How to teach novices about optimal changeset size?

Sat Jan 20 15:08:46 UTC 2018

On 2018-01-20 14:36, Gaurav Thapa wrote:
> Yes, I am aware of these buttons. Do you mean that we do Ctrl+S 
> frequently in order to do partial saves? I feel this might allow for 
> greater chance for conflicts to occur rather than uploading frequently.

In JOSM, click on the Upload button. Then in the Upload dialogue, click 
on the tab for "Changesets". Then that has an option for "Close 
changeset after upload". If you untick that option, it will keep the 
changeset open.
So you can do frequent uploads, all in the same changeset. Or you could 
have several changesets open, and upload different parts into each one.

Some details here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Action/Upload