[OSM-talk] What is an ID?

[Shaun McDonald]

On 3 Aug 2011, at 15:45, Claudius wrote:

> 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.
> 

Eh? As part of the API 0.6 development we started setting up dev apis, specifically for API testing, rather than polluting the production data.

Shaun


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