[OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

[Jon Burgess]

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 07:31 +0000, 80n wrote:


> On further inspection, what I said above is complete rubbish.  The
> timestamp format difference is between the the planet dump and the API
> not Osmosis:
> 
> Planet dump:
>  <node id="2" lat="50.1360074" lon="8.3023717"
> timestamp="2007-10-04T18:28:37Z">
> 
> API:
> <node id="2" lat="50.1360074" lon="8.3023717"
> timestamp="2007-10-04T19:28:37+01:00">
> 
> My code, which is pants, wrongly assumes that Osmosis was using a
> timestamp like the API produces, when in fact its the same as the
> planet dump.
> 
> Maybe I'll be able to fix it properly now I know what I'm talking
> about.

The timestamps in the planet dumps did match the API until a few months
ago. Brett and I agreed to converge on a common timestamp format since
the generic Java date parsing was horribly slow. 

I suppose we could change the API to use this same format if it would
help other tools.

	Jon