[OSM-talk] OSmosa.net run now.., contribution model

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:11 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2) Post-process the diff files to change the id of any new elements to a
> negative value.  This is simply a matter of multiplying the id by -1 if the
> element's version attribute is 1.

Naive question here: so the OSM copy ends up with negative numbers?
Isn't that bad? Also, in any case, you end up with different IDs in
the two databases, no? Or do you then also update the ID in the source
database to be negative as well, and then reset the id counter?

Steve