[OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

[Roland Olbricht]

Dear all,

> One complete different thing that would also been very interesting to
> have in even more augmented diffs is the previous version of an
> object.
> This would allow to do analysis on edits without the need of a
> database... and also apply diff backwards.
> 
> Of course, the side effect will be larger files, but is that a real problem
> ?

This is not a real problem. In fact, the diffs already contain the previous 
version of all changed objects.

> Last question (for the moment)... have you looked at .o5c file format
> to produce near pbf compact diffs ?

Not really. I spent a weekend in January to understand PBF and how to generate 
it but I didn't understand the documentation and put it aside.

Cheers,

Roland
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