[OSM-talk] Proposed Relations

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ldp wrote:
> How would you detect order-unaware clients uploading such an ordered 
> relation?

I wouldn't bother. My timeline:

1. Build the feature into API 0.6 and tell nobody about it. Nobody will 
notice, nobody has to change what he does.
2. Make sure the big three editors support ordering. Nobody will notice, 
nobody has to change what he does. Also, try and get Osmosis and the 
various mirror services (ROMA, XAPI) to support ordered relations.
3. Once this is working to a sufficient degree, announce that ordered 
relations are now possible (if required, issue some caveats like "but 
doesn't work in XYZ yet"), and would anyone using their own client or a 
niche editor please make sure to respect this.
4. If someone messes things up, the human beings involved can sort that 
out. It is not the API's responsibility to make sure that clients work 
correctly.

I'm not in the mood for a complex capability exchange between server and 
client although if we should make the creation of a changeset mandatory 
in 0.6 then the "create changeset" request would be an ideal place to 
add such things.

Bye
Frederik

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