Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-04 Thread 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

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-03 Thread 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

[OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
Rather than comment on the id stability thread, I though it better to turn the question around ... In my own data trail, an ID *IS* unique, and is directly linked to the piece of data it relates to. If I change the data then the version number goes up. If I delete the data, then the ID number

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
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 :(

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread 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

Re: [OSM-talk] What is an ID?

2011-08-02 Thread Lester Caine
Tom Hughes wrote: 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