[OSM-dev] osm schema/dtd - planet and request timestamp

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,
with the increasing number of database mirrors satisfying requests for
the various types of applications it would be a good idea to extend the
OSM apis DTD/Schema with some timestamps makeing it possible to check
for the currentness of the data. I'd propose something like
requestTimestamp and planetTimestamp so you know the time the osm file
was generated and based on which database state.

I was looking at http://kinkrsoftware.nl/contrib/osm/osm-0.5.xsd which
does not mention something like this.

The main api could simply add the current time as the timestamps.

Comments?

Flo
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