[Imports] Sorting changes

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/10/15 Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> the other day I talked to Richard Weait on irc about upload utilities
>> and we thought it would be nice for big uploads, which need to be
>> split anyway, to be split "logically", so that the changes appear in a
>> similar order to how a human editor would draw them.  This little
>> script doesn't exactly achieve this but does the trick for me:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.pl/balrog/bulkupload/smarter-sort.py
>>
>> A number of times I had a situation where my upload script first
>> uploaded all the payload of new nodes, and then before I finished
>> uploading ways, a human editor saw unused, untagged nodes and started
>> deleting them causing conflicts, so now I run this script before
>> splitting changesets.
>
> What converter/upload script are you using that creates node payloads before
> uploading the ways? I would say that you should be fixing your upload and/or
> convert script before you worry about sorting changes...

I use a couple of simple python scripts, creations are sorted nodes
first, then ways, then relations, modifications are left alone and
deletions in relation-way-node order.  What other ordering can you use
to make (almost) sure the api doesn't barf at your changeset?

Cheers