On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:41:05AM -0600, Scott Crosby wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:08:41AM -0600, Scott Crosby wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Scott Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Yes. That is an osmosis bug. That header block is required. > >> > >> I would like to clarify this slightly. There must be an OSMHeader > >> block before the first OSMData block, however, the OSMHeader block > >> does not have to be the first block in the file. Also, parsers should > >> ignore fileblocks types that they do not understand. > > > > Hm. I see I have some more coding to do then... :-) > > Sorry. I could have been more explicit. This is intended for forward > compatibility; anyone can define and add their own > application-specific block types to the file. It should be fairly easy > to skip those blocks; have a front-end filter that skips any block > thats not 'OSMHeader' or 'OSMData'. Then the first unskipped block > must contain an OSMHeader block.
Yes, I understood. Makes sense to me. Its just that in the code I have (which I mostly stole from MoNav (Thanks!), the change will not be trivial but merely "easy" to do. :-) Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
