[OSM-dev] Extended diffs

[Jais Pedersen]

Would it also be possible to only include the closed changesets in the
extended diffs to make it easier to make QA tools?

/Jais

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Komяpa,
>
>
>  After some time of thinking what's needed in order to keep osm2pgsql
>> database up-to-date, I've come to idea of extended diffs.
>>
>
> Yes, that is an excellent idea and would make processing easier for many
> use cases. (For some use cases it would be good if the diff contained a
> "before" and "after" picture - that way you could e.g. have a running count
> of the road lengths in some place without storing anything locally. But
> that might then be too voluminous.)
>
> I used to call this an "augmented diff".
>
> The beauty of this is that such diffs can be issued by anyone who sets up
> a server for it; no need to change anything on OSMF servers.
>
> I had a brief conversation with Roland Olbricht about this who suggested
> that maybe his Overpass API could be fashioned into producing such diffs
> but I don't think anybody had really implemented anything.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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