[OSM-talk] How to best do Bulk Changes (XAPI troubles)

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Patrick Weber <p.weber at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> I have a dataset of official spelling luxembourgish village names, as well
> as what council each village belongs too. Because I couldnt filter the API
> down to only nodes with place tags, I downloaded using the XAPI all place
> nodes for Luxembourg, and been able to import the XML data into a GIS
> (Manifold), and generate the updated "name:lb" and "is:in" tags.  Trouble is
> now, altough I planned to simply write a script to generate a valid
> changeset XML to then upload to the API, now with I dont have the version
> information, as it wasnt included in the XAPI ?
>
> First, is this a omission or intended that XAPI doesnt carry the version
> info? Secondly, how can I get OSM data which contains the version info? And
> finally, does anyone have advice on an easier way of generating bulk changes
> like this? (I am talking about 400 changes).

Have you looked at getting a proper Planet dump extract instead:
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/luxembourg.osm.bz2

There were also some 0.5->0.6 problems with XAPI, maybe it's still
serving 0.5 data?