[OSM-dev] Inserting OSM data

[John Smith]

On 23 March 2010 00:54, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Only by investigating the new data and comparing it to your own data. As
> you can see on some of the Kosovo pages, there is a link to a changeset.
> This is a collection of all the items that got added/changed. This could be
> used to check against your local data.

If he generates an OSM file of the data, and include a special
company:id=* tag that he can use to track the way with, long term ways
get split etc so he only needs the ID long enough to update his own
database and so forth.