[OSM-talk] Potlatch wayss with negative ID's

Florian Loitsch openstreetmap at florian.loitsch.com
Mon Jun 4 15:52:29 BST 2007


On Monday 04 June 2007 16:47:51 Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> David Groom wrote:
> > Is there anyway to force these to be uploaded again ( I have tried adding
> > tags on the way and changing existing tags, but this doesn't force the
> > way to get a valid ID)
> >
> > Or do I simply have to close the browser, loose the ways that I was
> > trying to create, and then open Potlatch again, and draw the way from
> > scratch?
>
> At present you do, yes. When you first try to upload a new way,
> Potlatch sets its "uploading" flag, and won't upload that way again
> until it's received a response from the server. (This was a change
> introduced the other week to stop duplicate ways being created.)
>
> Clearly in the circumstances you describe, this causes problems (I
> encountered this the other day, too). But I'm unsure how to address
> it. Should it just forget the "uploading" flag after, say, 1 minute,
> so you can retry?
Ideally you should send some kind of ID with your way. The server-side should 
keep track of these ids (at least for some time). This way the client could 
retry several times without creating duplicated ways.
// florian
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
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