[OSM-talk] What is an ID?

[Claudius]

Am 03.08.2011 02:34, Lester Caine:
> Tom Hughes wrote:
>> 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"?
>
> I just started at '1' to see how good things were, and a few of the
> nodes I then worked through showed questionable changes ...
> Actually it's interesting looking at some of the raw history. There are
> a block below 1400, many of which are original nodes, but some seem to
> have these strange edits, then there is a jump to 77858, which I presume
> was a hick-up somewhere along the line very early on, except that the
> 1300 series nodes post date 77858, so something is/was going wrong
> somewhere? Some of these early node numbers have been edited earlier
> this year ...
>
> "Shit happens, and we deal with it." still has the problem of
> identifying where the shit has happened and working out how to deal with
> it.

You are probably aware that version numbers were added in 2009 with the 
API 0.6 change [1]. So judging from the changedate the low number 
anomalies you have discovered are probably related to those early 
testing and fixing phase.

Claudius

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_changes_between_v0.5_and_v0.6