> -----Original Message----- > From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] > > Thinking about this, I like the stripping of the version number. > > We're having a lot of trouble with people doing mass edits by using XAPI > etc. to download e.g. everything with name=McDonalds world-wide and > replacing that with name=McDonald's - breaking a lot of correct things > in the process. Not serving the version number on XAPI, Overpass and > others would send a clear signal that these services are not to be used > for editing.
Like NE2's http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/682273592? In spite of the problems with mass-edits based on XAPI queries, it is still essential for some parts of my workflow. I used my local jxapi instance extensively fixing NHD tagging in California. See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2011-March/005438.html for details. I have also used it for mapping highways in large areas, adding highway relations and occasionally for normal mapping when I didn't want to hit API limits. If jxapi ever stops serving data usable for editing then I will not pull the latest code updates for my local copy. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
