I’m not really sure where else to put this so I’ve just decided to put it here, anyway:

Sometimes when I am either uploading or downloading on JOSM, it freezes on the loading bar and stays there and does nothing. Even pressing cancel does nothing. I just end up having to close JOSM from task manager and start what I was doing again (which is frustrating and takes up time). So I haven’t been able to do much work on the map recently.

Also, this does not happen every time and it doesnt happen in the same situations. E.g It happened just now when I was trying to download a little portion of the map, but when I tried again on the same bit after restarting, it worked as normal.

So I don’t know what to do. Does anyone have any knowledge on this or has had the same problem? Thanks

I’m interested to know how you all come up with names for generic streets because I have no ideas.

At the moment I’m just taking random words from my (small) Bayese dictionary and adding “straus” to the end but the dictionary certainly won’t last me very long.

So where do you get your street names from? Do you even name your streets at all?

Is there any way (on this site or on JOSM) of finding the sizes of various things? For example the length of a way or the area of an area/shape.

I find rivers to be one of the hardest things about this project.

Is there any easier way of creating realistic rivers relatively easily? Or is there some sort of guide that can help to create realistic rivers?

If not, would anyone be willing to help me a bit with rivers?

Thanks :)

Is there any easier way of creating motorways that are made of two ways parallel to each other? Or will I just have to create the second way by hand?

Example of what I’m talking about: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=16/57.1453/40.5456