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

[80n]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Patrick Weber <p.weber at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> 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 ?
>

XAPI will provide version data if it has it.  For anything that has changed
since 0.6 version data will be available.  For anything older there will not
be a version attribute until I get around to loading the version data from a
planet dump.

80n
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