[OSM-dev] Grumble, grumble

[Tom Hughes]

Maarten Deen wrote:

>> No it doesn't; if you do a "map" query against the API, you will *not*
>> receive deleted objects, and that's what JOSM does in step 4. It would
>> not be feasible to query each object individually.
> 
> Why not? How is this different from a user having to go through all his
> changes manually and download every node/way he changed manually?

It's not feasible because it would be a very quick way for JOSM to get 
itself banned if it started trying to download every single object in an 
area individually like this.

>> However one thing that JOSM could do is compare the list of objects in
>> memory with those returned by the "map" query and thus find out which
>> ones are "missing" from the map query, then request those individually
>> to confirm they are really "410 Gone".
> 
> Well, depending on how you downloaded the data in the first place. It is not
> said that the data came from a download in JOSM.

If there data didn't come from the API then there can't be a conflict of 
this sort as the objects would be new objects and therefore couldn't 
have already been deleted on the server.

>> The latter (it is exactly the way as used in 0.5). But it does not
>> upload the changes in the order you made them, instead it first uploads
>> all creations, then all modifications, then all deletions.
> 
> By doing it that way, does it give an errormessage with the offending node/way
> id? That would be really helpful.

Recent versions of JOSM already report the detailed error message that 
the server sends to the user - that should include details of the 
problem object.

Tom

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