[josm-dev] josm-ng progress

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Yes, I think changesets are becoming more and more important. They would
solve a lot of these problems, in addition to a few more (such as rolling
back inadvertent or malicious changes).

Karl
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