[OSM-talk] User umehlig and some really nasty edits

[Chris Hill]

>Dave 
Stubbs 
wrote:

>> 
I 
don't 
know 
who/what 
they 
are, 
but 
there 
are 
a 
large 
number 
of 
low
>> 
number 
nodes 
that 
have 
been 
utterly 
destroyed. 
Basically 
522-603 
and 
a
>> 
few 
others 
in 
the 
1000's 
have 
been 
moved 
halfway 
round 
the 
planet.


>All 
right 
I 
confessssss. 
I 
have 
done 
something 
like 
that 
to 
the 
node 
>300 
a 
while 
ago. 
But 
while 
you 
are 
considering 
some 
solutions 
to 
>this 
problem 
allow 
me 
to 
explain 
myself. 
I 
tried 
to 
find 
out 
how 
to 
>create 
and 
upload 
osm 
file 
by 
hand 
(i 
like 
vi 
that 
myuch 
;) 
But 
>there 
is 
no 
single 
word 
written 
here 
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5
>on 
how 
to 
obtain 
or 
create 
new 
id. 
It 
is 
described 
how 
to 
create 
an 
>object 
but 
not 
how 
to 
choose 
an 
id 
for 
it.

The server allocates the ID for you.  You cannot choose the ID, you don't know what else is being added at that moment.

cheers,
Chris





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