[OSM-dev] question about node identifiers

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 23/8/09, Frank O'Dwyer <frank-osm at wordonthestreethq.com> wrote:

> Cheers, that's what I expected. So I can probably just
> ignore that case for now and run a cleanup script separately
> later on if needed.

Just keep tabs on ID numbers these are unique.

> Is there a recommended way to do this so as not to cause
> undue load on osm servers? Any existing code I could to pull
> changesets?

Use a mirror.

> Is there already existing ruby code to parse the
> changesets? So far I've been playing around with osmlib but
> it seems like it only supports .osm files.

No idea, most stuff seems to be in C/C++ or java.