> Correct. I would be happy though if writers of editors etc. could act as > if the relation members were ordered, and thus upload them in the same > sequence they were downloaded. This gives us the option of switching to
In APISs/interfaces there's often a dilemma to make 'life' easier for writers or readers. Imposing the "same order" is even more demanding for 'data producers' than imposing an ordering. I would not recommend both in order to make APIs simple. -- S. 2008/6/1 Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > >> Next to this; can a user explicitly trust the sequence 1,2,1,3; or is > >> this currently not guaranteed? > > > > This is not guaranteed. Relations are unordered. As far as I can tell > > currently the API returns relations with the member nodes sorted by > ascending > > ID first and then the member ways sorted by ascending ID > > Correct. I would be happy though if writers of editors etc. could act as > if the relation members were ordered, and thus upload them in the same > sequence they were downloaded. This gives us the option of switching to > an ordered mode later if we think it is necessary, without having to > change editors. > > Bye > Frederik > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >
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