On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 23:13, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Chris Browet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It depends of what are the id's in the osm file. > > Looks like the feature IDs are all negative in the GeoBase file. > > > You can always select the osm features and do a "Force Upload", which > will > > make them "dirty" and allow you to upload them. > > Now, if the feature id's are positive, Merkaartor will assume those are > osm > > id's (from an extract of some sort) and try to UPDATE the features > (rather > > than add them), which is maybe not whay you want and will fail if the id > are > > not in the database (or worse, exists but are not the same features; > makes > > me think I should somehow check that...) > > If the id's are negative, Merkaartor will consider them as new features > and > > properly add them to the osm database. > > Ooh, sounds like a recipe for disaster! >
Mmm... Why? If the IDs of the GeoBase are negative, doing a "Force Upload" is equivalent to copy-pasting, just faster. The "recipe for disaster" would be if IDs were positive and I should definitely close this "door of doom"! Of course, it depends of your workflow as well... > > Thanks again for a great tool... still figuring out how to use it > properly for raw data input, but for finding features by attribute, > bulk changes to features, and this type of copy and paste editing, > it's top notch! > > Thanks. Appreciative comments are always welcome :-) (of course, constructive negative ones, too) - Chris -
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