How to avoid "Changeset bounding box size limit exceeded" when editing tags of a large boundary?

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I’m trying to edit the tags of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve’s boundary to connect it with its Wikidata page, but I get “Changeset bounding box size limit exceeded” when I try to publish my edits with the in-browser editor and JOSM. How do I avoid the error message when editing the boundary’s tags?

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You can try select some part then click File > Upload selection (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U) (in JOSM).

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I’m unsure how to do that without messing something up.

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If you are just changing the tags on the relation/closed way, then ignore the warning message. There is nothing you can do about that.

If you are just editing tags I find the easiest way to do that is with GitHub - Zverik/osmtags-editor: An extension that adds an "edit tags" button to every object on osm.org · GitHub

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You need to make more regular edits not affecting very large objects.

Sadly, this limit was introduced due to malicious vandals and new accounts are now a bit restricted.

I made this edit, adding wikidata and wikipedia

In meantime you can mention here such changes you wanted to make, maybe someone else will perform this edits if objects you try modify are for now too large?

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This does not help if one wants to make an edit.

In this case new user tried to edit large object and got stopped by limits on new accounts.

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This does not help at all here, you cannot upload single too large object in parts.

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That means there’s a minimum technical requirement to perform such edits, right? Is the specific requirement public?

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it was added in Add the ability to limit changeset size by tomhughes · Pull Request #4908 · openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website · GitHub

The defaults allow new users to start with a limit equivalent to a square of 1.5 degrees on each side, and ramp up to the whole world over 28 days with it taking just over three days to start increasing and penalties being applied if the user is reported.

maybe it was tweaked since then, but I expect it to be roughly the same

IIRC days refers here to days with edits

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This is very helpful. Thank you!

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