Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > >> Please think through what needs to happen when a way is split. Can the >> order be given like 10,20,30, so 15 and 25, 28 can be added in between? >> > > We don't support incremental changes to objects. When you make a > change to an object, however minor, you re-upload the whole object. > This is not going to change. > > The API user is not concerned with the sequence numbering, he just > uploads the sequence he wants. The numbering takes place internally. > So inserting a way in the middle and/or reordering ways will have to be implemented in all the editors then. > >> Also please change the API, so merging and >> splitting of ways doesn't have an influence on route relations. This >> would take away the responsibility of the editors to do this. >> > > Our API is very low-level and has no understanding of the semantics of > relations. First of all, there is no API operation "split way" - > splitting a way, for the API, is shortening one and uploading a new > one, both operations completely separate. What you're calling for is a > special "split way" operation that not only combines these two, but > also analyses which relations the split way was part of, and then > depending on the type of relations changes these as well. Altogehter > this is surely much too complex for our API. The editor will have to > do it I'm afraid. > OK, fair enough. I hope JOSM and Potlatch get around to implementing it sooner rather than later then. It's rather annoying to carefully define a route relation, knowing that it can be blown apart by people who remerge the parts or split them in other ways. I tested this and it gives undesired results at the moment.
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