[OSM-dev] OSM without segments - prototype

[Tom Hughes]

In message <2fc2c5f10708200542s62a62029ud5e133bce26eab38 at mail.gmail.com>
        Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/20/07, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>> > Well, for another point of view, I'd prefer the changes that could be
>> > made got applied and the rest got returned in an error message.
>>
>> It might be an enormous error message!
>>
>> I would not be at all comfortable about continuing past the first
>> error - that just sounds like asking for trouble.
>
> Sounds good to me, then the client can be taught to skip errors and
> retry the rest of the stuff.

Well I'm still not really convinced - it means placing a lot of trust
in the clients to correctly process the response.

I'm also not sure how we handle things like limiting the size of the
uploaded change set to something sensible so that we don't block the
API for other users.

> I do hope some bulk uploading system is sorted out soon, or this AND
> upload will take a loooong time... :)

That's a completely separate issue, and I thought I had already agreed
with you guys that we would run that on the server when you were ready.

Tom

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