[OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

[Lars Aronsson]

Today I learned about [[Osmxapi]] and found it really useful for 
digging out ways tagged with FIXME.  However, on the wiki page it 
says "the data is never more than about 2 hours old" and this 
clearly doesn't hold, as I got data from InformationFreeway that 
was changed in OSM many days ago.  What's up?

In particular, this command:

 wget 'http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[bbox=15,58,15.5,59][note=FIXME previously unwayed segment]' -O mymap.osm

returns 1.5 megabytes of data with a mesh of single line segment 
ways tagged with FIXME, that I last week have combined into longer 
ways tagged with highway=secondary.


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