[OSM-dev] Consensus on areas?

[Nicola Ranaldo]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 12:29, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> >*) to avoid nodes duplications editors before uploading a new node should
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> do a
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> >map request, and should warning the user if there ar a node closest to
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> the
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> >new, letting him  in creating a new node or updating the one existing
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> I think this (and any other similar duplication checking) should be done
> server-side, to avoid undue complexity in editor code and every single
> editor having to implement such code.
>
> Nick

Yes! this would be very very good! and it could be usefull to have a roadmap 
with a prediction of api releases, editors developers so could choose to 
implement or not work-arounds.
About api i was thinking it could be usefull to implement xml formatted 
response. With this you may give to clients a structured response, error 
code, error text and so on. Some weeks ago, some way create requests gived me 
a mysql error. A simple editor not checking data is numerical, could convert 
that string in a '0'. Adopting xml will prevent some similiar race conditions 
and more flessibility in response parsing then actual http codes.

        Niko