[OSM-dev] Exhaustion of 32bit signed integer range expected this year

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 04/13/2012 04:30 PM, Sven Geggus wrote:
> Or used for other purposes like in osm2pgsql. Will the upcoming licence
> change add a delay to this problem?

No; if anything, node IDs will be used up faster because if the 
something is deleted by the bot and later re-created with a new ID then 
that would count extra.

However, even if *all* problematic nodes were deleted and re-created, 
that would be less edit activity than we normally see in one month, so 
it wouldn't have a big impact on the outcome.

Bye
Frederik

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