[OSM-talk] Osmxapi returns old data

[80n]

Lars
I think this is all sorted out now.  Let me know if you suspect any other
discrepancies.

80n

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> 80n wrote:
>
> > Lars
> > Can you point to a couple of specific instances please so that I can
> > investigate further?
>
> If you try this very narrow region,
>
>  wget '
> http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[bbox=14.4,58.05,14.6,58.1][note=FIXME<http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way%5Bbbox=14.4,58.05,14.6,58.1%5D%5Bnote=FIXME>previously unwayed segment]' -O
> mymap.osm
>
> You will get a 3280 bytes in mymap.osm, containing a few small
> untagged ways:
>
>  <way id='8173415' timestamp='2005-06-23T02:14:27Z'>
>  <way id='8173417' timestamp='2005-06-23T02:14:30Z'>
>  <way id='8173419' timestamp='2005-06-23T02:15:30Z'>
>  <way id='8212509' timestamp='2006-02-24T18:11:40Z'>
>  <way id='8212516' timestamp='2006-02-24T18:12:58Z'>
>  <way id='8212518' timestamp='2006-02-24T18:14:36Z'>
>  <way id='8212522' timestamp='2006-02-24T18:14:41Z'>
>  <way id='8212526' timestamp='2006-02-24T18:15:07Z'>
>
> Swedes will know this area as the ruins of Brahehus, near lake
> Vättern and motorway E4.  I mapped this place with line segments
> in my first year of OSM, as shown by the timestamps above.  Then
> Osmarender was introduced and the need to tag ways, and then
> someone added "FIXME" tags to old line segments. So just two weeks
> ago I edited these ways, combining them into larger units, adding
> the appropriate tags and removing the "note=FIXME" tags.
>
> When you open mymap.osm with JOSM, you will notice that all ways
> are 2 nodes (a single line segment) and they are not connected,
> but sprinkled out.  If you download fresh data from OSM (without
> changing the zoom), you will notice that all FIXME tags are gone,
> and the ways are larger connected units.
>
> The last way in the list above, having id=8212526, still exists,
> but now is now a 4 node way (highway=motorway_link).  It was
> tagged "fixme" in the planet.osm dump of 080227, but not in 080305
> or 080312.
>
> At first I thought that 2-node ways that I had removed were
> lingering in osmxapi, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  I
> guess the neighboring ways 8212523-8212525 were correctly removed.
> But the way that remained after my combination and tagging,
> 8212526, apparently wasn't modified in osmxapi.
>
>
>
> --
>   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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