[OSM-dev] Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?
Brett Henderson
brett at bretth.com
Thu Aug 14 06:44:57 BST 2008
Karl Newman wrote:
> Even still, it's a valid concern and there are other operations (i.e.,
> cutting into tiles or tag transforms) that can manipulate the data
> into a form that probably shouldn't be uploaded.
>
> Karl
Yep, agree. If it wasn't the default behaviour it would just be far
less likely to occur :-)
There was discussion a while ago about creating some form of super
bounds element at the top of osm files to indicate which system the data
is compatible with (eg. production api versus a dev environment).
Perhaps something like that would be more appropriate than resorting to
tags on every modified entity? You could get extra funky and generate a
unique id for each database upon installation that allows tools to check
for compatibility (subversion does this I believe) ... perhaps a simple
user entered db name would be more than sufficient.
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