[osmosis-dev] bound/bounds element in OSM XML

[Tobias Knerr]

Brett Henderson wrote:
> I'm not sure of the exact history here, but I think bound existed before
> bounds.  bounds is a newer concept with different attributes that has
> never been implemented in Osmosis.  I'm not sure what would be involved
> in updating Osmosis to support it, but perhaps it's just a matter of
> updating the XML tasks to use the different element and attributes.

As far as I can tell, only changes to the XML reading and writing
functionality would be necessary. The Bound class already represents the
bounds as 4 separate values, so I expect that other parts of the code
using it could remain unchanged.

If patches are welcome, I think I'd be able to modify the code to use
the bounds element. Should support for reading the bound element remain
intact for compatibility with old files?

Tobias