[OSM-dev] Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 16:41:13 BST 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending
> on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some
> of the nodes in the way. But looking at the XML there is no way to tell
> that this has happened. The way still has the same ID and timestamp.
> There should be a way of recognizing theses chopped of ways, say by
> adding an incomplete="true" attribute or something.
>
> This question came up on the German mailing list after somebody had used
> the excerpt as basis for some automated fixing of data. He (IMHO correctly)
> checked the Osmosis excerpt with current data from the API by comparing
> the timestamps which were the same. So he assumed nothing had changed
> and he could safely edit the data. But because of the excerpt process
> the data he based his decision on, was not correct.
>
> This is part of a larger problem. Say you create an extract with only
> some of the tags or a relation with only some members.
>
> Jochen
>

How about osmosis:mangled=yes? Or what about touching the timestamp of the
entity?

Karl
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