JOSM Trouble

Posted by Fleur on 29 August 2014 in English.

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

Discussion

Comment from thilo on 1 September 2014 at 19:46

Unfortunately I don’t find the time to do much editing myself these days, so obviously I don’t have that problem. However you might try the following

  • upgrade to the latest version
  • upload more often, i.e. a smaller set of objects
  • save your changes to a file before uploading
  • avoid uploading during coastline updates (those require a complete database export) around 0:00, 4:00, 8:00 … etc. Central european time (up to ca. 15 minutes afterwards).

Comment from wangi on 2 September 2014 at 00:55

To narrow it down to a JOSM, network or OGF problem… Does the same also happen if you try to edit with OSM?

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