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

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:37:14PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> Florian Lohoff wrote:
> 
> >No need for object versioning here - I want to enable everyone to look
> >at when the data was generated and from which database state.
> 
> Well for planet that's simple - it isn't generated from any particular 
> state but rather contains some combination of the states over a period 
> of a number of hours as it is created.
> 
> So there is no single timestamp we could report.

SO why does the planet export and/or the osc change files have
timestamps in their filename? Its a snapshot timestamp and thats the one
i am interested in. It says that the state i am dumping, and thats what
the map api call does for a bbox, is current up to date X.

Flo
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