[OSM-dev] Filename extensions for OSM files

Peter Körner osm-lists at mazdermind.de
Wed May 11 12:23:39 BST 2011


Am 11.05.2011 13:17, schrieb Matt Amos:
>> We should probably introduce an attribute on the<osm>  tag that says that
>> this is a history file. Just as we are currently discussing for the PBF
>> version.
>
> while we're at it, let's have a flag to indicate if the elements are
> sorted by ID, how many prime-numbered elements there are, whether
> there was a full moon when it was generated and what the colour of the
> file is. i'm up for all of that as long as it's blue.

history files have similar syntax as normal osm files, but very 
different semantics. A program processing a history file needs to be 
aware or it
  - having multiple objects with the same id
  - having objects that stop being existent in some point in time
  - that have an extra information attached

that way it is useful for a program to know, if a file fed into it via 
stdin will be processed fine right from the start. nobody likes 
processes that fail after 10 hours because of a missing 
--this-is-an-history-file flag.

Peter



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