[OSM-talk] What is an ID?

[Tom Hughes]

On 02/08/11 18:43, Lester Caine wrote:
> Richard Mann wrote:
>> I think he was joking about reusing ids (he was illustrating the point
>> with the sort of daft temporary fix that someone might do ... if they
>> were daft)
>
> Well someone has set up the system to reuse them !!!!
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1/history
> THAT is a joke :(
> PLEASE can someone disable that corruption before it goes too far?

Nobody has setup a system to reuse anything.

All you are seeing there is the result of badly written programs and the 
like doing perfectly normal REST writes to node 1. When such mistakes 
are made people revert them. Shit happens, and we deal with it.

How exactly do you suggest that we "disable that corruption"?

Tom

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