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

[Patrick Weber]

Cheers that did the trick, the extract linked contains version info. 
Interestingly, I did try the cloudmade extract, which didnt have the 
version info!


Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 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?
>   
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