On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:42 AM, greg crago <gregcrago@gmail.com> wrote:
Downloading many states and then breaking them up using a 'splitter-type' program, gives me the flexibility to edit sections of the country I want to.
For this you can use osmconvert http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert You can download a full country and split it into multiple parts, using poly files for this. Take a look at sections "Bounding-polygon task", "Premade polygon files" and "Converting to/from POLY format" here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Polygon_Filter_File_Format
I thought UPLOAD conflicts only occur when objects I HAVE MODIFIED, conflict with objects in the OSM database that have been modified since I download MY VERSION. If I have large areas of 'outdated' OSM data, that I do not modify, I should not have any problems when I upload, since I am not sending that 'untouched' data back to OSM, correct?
It indeed can only conflict on modified objects, but what I was trying to say is that the chance to create duplicate objects or have conflicts increases a lot when using older data + editing in a large area + editing a lot of data.