[OSM-talk] Searching for recently added names not working

[David Earl]

I'm afraid the name finder index has got a problem which means that 
index entries for new objects (node/way/relation) added since August 8 
are missing. (Actually it is a bit more subtle than that, depending on 
whether the object was also later modified, and whether there happened 
to be no deletions of objects of the same type on any particular day).

The problem was that when I switched it to using the daily planet gz 
instead of bz2 files, I hadn't realized that the name of the XML tag for 
additions also changed from "<add ..." to "<create ...". The log files 
all look reasonable: it was showing a large number of ways etc being 
processed, but of course it was only counting modified ones, not new 
ones, skipping the entries enclosed by "create" completely. So I only 
discovered this when I searched for some streets I added this week and 
couldn't find some but did find others (those I had later modified) and 
investigated why.

Fortunately all the daily diffs back to 8/8 are still there, so I am now 
going to suspend the daily update, re-run all the updates for the last 
two weeks, and then catch up with tonight's and maybe tomorrow's later - 
the longer update may well take more than a day to run. In the meantime, 
searching will be very slow and may not find entries which are removed 
during the file processing phase but have not yet been processed in the 
update phase (which will be many hours apart).

Sorry about this. The rules changed under my feet!

David