[OSM-dev] How do clients use XAPI's XML attributes version, timestamp, uid, user and changeset?
Peter Körner
osm-lists at mazdermind.de
Tue May 31 10:01:03 BST 2011
Hi
Am 31.05.2011 10:41, schrieb Stefan Keller:
> To your knowledge, how much used are the XML attributes: version,
> timestamp, uid, user and changeset in the XAPI format (except for
> statistical and quality testing use cases)?
The XAPI is often used to do manually semi-automated edits. For example:
* download all bus-stations in mainz
* open the file in josm
* ctrl-a
* add an operator-tag
* upload the changes
This can only work when at least the version is supplied, as the new
items needs to be uploaded with version+1.
Peter
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