[OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

>
> 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<http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way%5Bbbox=15,58,15.5,59%5D%5Bnote=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.
>

This is probably due to the recently broken (and now fixed) daily/hourly
diffs. After this week's planet dump is imported (probably today), the
hourly diffs should be able to properly keep it up to date as the wiki page
states.

Karl
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