[OSM-dev] Minute Diffs Broken

[Brett Henderson]

Brett Henderson wrote:
>>> Also, there's a potential flaw with this approach.  Lets say I 
>>> create node 100 with version 1 in changeset 10 in Potlatch and leave 
>>> my changeset open.  You then come along with JOSM and edit node 100 
>>> creating version 2 within changeset 11 and close your changeset 
>>> immediately.  Osmosis will pick up changeset 11 after 5 minutes and 
>>> distribute node 100 version 2.  A day later Osmosis will pick up 
>>> changeset 10 and distribute it node 100 version 1.
>>
>> Ouch, I hadn't thought of this, but of course you are right. - But 
>> now that the XML contains version numbers, would it not be the 
>> superior approach anyway to base --apply-change on version numbers 
>> anyway?
>
> Probably.  Like much of osmosis it is intentionally dumb which leads 
> to it being predictable and easy to maintain.  Patches welcome :-)
One thing I forgot to mention.  I wasn't just referring to the 
--apply-change task.  It will also impact other tasks such as 
--write-pgsql-change, --write-apidb-change, etc which impacts systems 
such as ROMA.  It may also impact other downstream systems such as 
mapnik rendering and XAPI.