I presume you mean version instead of id. On 17 Jun 2009, at 19:27, SteveC wrote:
> So it looks like you grab a node and it has id n and you upload after > changing it n+1. Or something. > > If the database has some id >n+1 it shouts 'EPIC FAIL' and the client > says uh-oh you're out of date. > > But, the client could just try uploading n+2 or n+3... n+m until it > succeeds. Is that correct? > > Curious, did anyone look at throwing tokens around instead of versions > or some other way where you don't have to trust the client? I assume > this would be computationally expensive. > There has been a tiny disussion on using random increases in version number (including the first version), or having a single version number for all nodes/ways/relations more like svn. This however requires an API increase since the whole node/way/ relation would need to be returned on creation, instead of just the new id. Shaun > Of course, in the end we trust mappers :-) > > Best > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
