[OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Brett Henderson
Forwarding to list ... Original Message Subject:Re: [OSM-dev] Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML? Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:21:14 +0200 From: Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organisation: BitWizard.nl To: Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] References:

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Karl Newman
snip I'm not sure if I understand things fully, but I thought that e.g. for offline editing you can request the map data about an area from the mapserver. Say 45.5N to 45.7N, 4.3E to 4.4E. Now while exporting from the database, the question is: What do you do with ways that are only

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:28:04AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: Those need to be marked in a way that won't interfere with current use of those ways, as well as inform interested parties/programs that a more complete way is available on the server. My personal choice would be to move

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 06:28:04AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: Those need to be marked in a way that won't interfere with current use of those ways, as well as inform interested parties/programs that a more complete way

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:04:11AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: The suggestion was to mark the version of the entity as negative. The version attribute does not yet exist but is proposed for the upcoming 0.6 API. Making it negative would prevent it from being uploaded because the server would

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Rogier Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:04:11AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: The suggestion was to mark the version of the entity as negative. The version attribute does not yet exist but is proposed for the upcoming 0.6 API. Making it

Re: [OSM-dev] [Fwd: Re: Chopped of ways. New flag for OSM XML?]

2008-08-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 07:59:07AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: Making some parameter negative to mean this object is incomplete sounds like a hack to me. It's something that you might do in an internal database, or in an in-memory datastructure, but it should not be in an API. Not ever. It's