Dermot McNally wrote: > Cases where uploading fails midway through and can't (easily) be > completed - due to precondition failure, for instance - suffer from > the fact that data self-consistency is lost because of the nodes-first > policy. In such cases, and I've often been victim to it, you end up > with a stack of nodes and no easy way of laying the ways back down. I > usually end up deleting the nodes and starting again. > > It's a pity the API can't support rollback in these cases. > > Dermot > > Wouldn't it be good for the next (or some future) version of the OSM API to introduce some kind of atomic updates similar to SVN commits, on "all or nothing" basis? I guess this is not the right discussion list to ask this, but I'm just daydreaming...
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