[josm-dev] josm-ng progress

[Igor Brejc]

Dermot McNally wrote:
> Cases where uploading fails midway through and can't (easily) be
> completed - due to precondition failure, for instance - suffer from
> the fact that data self-consistency is lost because of the nodes-first
> policy. In such cases, and I've often been victim to it, you end up
> with a stack of nodes and no easy way of laying the ways back down. I
> usually end up deleting the nodes and starting again.
>
> It's a pity the API can't support rollback in these cases.
>
> Dermot
>
>   
Wouldn't it be good for the next (or some future) version of the OSM API 
to introduce some kind of atomic updates similar to SVN commits, on "all 
or nothing" basis? I guess this is not the right discussion list to ask 
this, but I'm just daydreaming...

Igor

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