[Openstreetmap] Uploading complete 0.2 XML files via the API

[Nick Whitelegg]

Would be good to be able to upload (via the API) a complete 0.2 OSM format
XML file, with both nodes and segments. e.g.

<osm version="0.2">
<node lat='xxx' lon='xxx' tags=''/>
<node....>
<node...>
<segment from="xxx" to="yyy" tags=""/>
<segment....>
</osm>

The only problem with this, of course, would be that the "from" and "to"
values for the segments would be unknown if the nodes are new. Could we
maybe implement a system where if node and segment IDs were negative
numbers, e.g.

<node lat='xxx' lon='yyy' tags='' uid='-1'>

and

<segment from='-1' to='-2' tags=''/>

then OSM would just allocate the next available ID to them?

Steve - if you're happy with this I could always implement it.

Nick