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

[David Earl]

All up to date now.

David

On 21/08/2008 11:19, David Earl wrote:
> 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