[OSM-talk] API anomalies (was: Potlatch and merging ways)

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Jul 3 22:32:00 BST 2007


In message <87oditb52l.fsf at julius-net.net>
          Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:

> I created a test way (4850696).  Then I checked its history.
> 
> This is the last way element of
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/4850696/history
> 
> <way id="4850696" visible="true" timestamp="2007-07-03T21:06:09+01:00">
>   <seg id="27418663"/>
>   <seg id="27418720"/>
>   <seg id="27418721"/>
>   <seg id="27418722"/>
>   <tag k="created_by" v="Potlatch alpha"/>
> </way>
> 
> And this is from the output of
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/4850696/
> 
> <way id="4850696" visible="true" timestamp="2007-07-03T21:06:09+01:00">
>   <seg id="27418663"/>
>   <tag k="created_by" v="Potlatch alpha"/>
> </way>
> 
> Shouldn't that be the same?  How is that possible?

It's completely wrong. So that's yet more database corruption for me
to try and cleanup...

> The segments except the first one look all like this
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/segment/27418722
> 
> <segment id="27418722" from="31267124" to="31267001" visible="true" timestamp="2007-07-03T21:06:09+01:00"/>
> 
> They are all visible="true" but have no nodes.

What do you think the from= and to= are? Those are the nodes...

Tom

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