[OSM-dev] OSM XML declaration, JOSM, Osmosis et al.

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Not serving the version number on XAPI, Overpass and others
> would send a clear signal that these services are not to be used for
> editing.

Doing so also precludes merging results with any existing OSM database
though. You can't have an extract then update via a service which
strips version numbers.

I think if you wanted to make this clear signal, you'd fake the IDs
altogether, use incrementing ones starting at 0, for example.

- Serge