How to add large objects (like country boundaries)?

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Please excuse me if it’s considered to be a stupid question, but I didn’t find any good guides on this subject.

Since OpenHistoricalMap is based on the OpenStreetMap engine, the whole interface is geared towards editing small, street-level features. In the standard editor (ID), you cannot even add or edit anything unless you zoom the map very closely, which makes tracing country-level maps (for example, from Map Warper) pretty much impossible (at such high zoom levels country boundaries are wider than the entire screen).

Is there some way to add an object from a GeoJSON file, for example? I’m quite good qith QGIS, but found JOSM rather complicated, and I don’t want to accidentally upload something unfinished.

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You still need to use JOSM for importing from files. It can’t be avoided. I don’t find it more complicated than QGIS.

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I already kind of figured out how to import a shapefile layer (with an OpenData plugin) and add a relation in JOSM, but for some reason it displays an “Upload discouraged” warning before sending it to the server. Nonetheless, I still managed to add Guernsey this way as an example (Relation: ‪Guernsey‬ (‪2828270‬) | OpenHistoricalMap). I hope I did everything right.

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You did everything right :+1:, the warning on JOSM is just to indicate that you are uploading data from external files