I have used JOSM now for about 16 months. It has never crashed on me yet!!!
What I do is I upload my data after finishing a logical section. I just won't
take the risk any more that something untoward may happen.
I an just a pessimist I suppose and plan for the worst case and it cannot get
worse than losing 3 hours of work. My sympathies lie with you demi
dcp

I have been using JOSM since I started as newbie and I received a lot of help from OSM Gurus before I was comfortable applying my newly won knowledge. I cannot find fault with it. I will agree that the learning curve is a little high but once you get the hang of it you'll never return to Potlach.

I think JohnSmith is referring to the duplicate function in JOSM; I too don't know of a "duplicate relation" function in JOSM.
Is there one in Potlach.

Mittels JOSM-Plugin Measurement geht es ganz good

This is very good work. Does it update the complete planet or is it restricted in some way

I have an old Nokia (without a tracker) so I went along to the local shop for advice on updating my hardware. The guy said: "Don't update; your model is very reliable, the modern ones are flimsy in comparison".
So off I went and bought a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (recommended by OSM) as a dedicated tracker. Luckily it was the right decision.

Hello POHB,
you have just replied to one of my help request so this is my revenge.
As I said I am a newbie and I purchase my Garmin about a month ago.
I had problems which I have ironed out. It was me of course but the handbook
didn't help.
Another thing I found out was the same as what you are mentioning.
I was storing the track data to the SD-Card. Apparently when you store to the
SD-Card the DateTimeStamp (DTS) is removed and Potlach cannot handle that.
Anyway the workaround was easy: Don't store to the SD-Card which of course reduces the functionality of the Garmin. Up to now I have never exeeded 6% storage anyway.
Bye
dcp in Germany

I love it. It should be the OSM motto

dcp