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

2008-08-14 Thread Jochen Topf
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:44:57PM +1000, Brett Henderson wrote: Karl Newman wrote: Even still, it's a valid concern and there are other operations (i.e., cutting into tiles or tag transforms) that can manipulate the data into a form that probably shouldn't be uploaded. Karl Yep, agree.

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

2008-08-14 Thread Brett Henderson
Jochen Topf wrote: But people *want* to use the data they get from some kind of extraction process to base decisions upon. And they should be able to. Not all the data is invalidated by an extraction, only some of it. It makes sense to mark those parts invalid that are, so that an automated

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

2008-08-14 Thread Karl Newman
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Topf wrote: But people *want* to use the data they get from some kind of extraction process to base decisions upon. And they should be able to. Not all the data is invalidated by an extraction, only some of it.

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

2008-08-14 Thread Jochen Topf
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:28:14AM +1000, Brett Henderson wrote: Karl Newman wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Topf wrote: But people *want* to use the data they get from some kind of

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

2008-08-13 Thread Brett Henderson
Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some of the nodes in the way. But looking at the XML there is no way to tell that this has happened. The way still has the same

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

2008-08-13 Thread Karl Newman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Brett Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Topf wrote: Hi! When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some of the nodes in the way. But looking at the

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

2008-08-13 Thread Brett Henderson
Karl Newman wrote: Even still, it's a valid concern and there are other operations (i.e., cutting into tiles or tag transforms) that can manipulate the data into a form that probably shouldn't be uploaded. Karl Yep, agree. If it wasn't the default behaviour it would just be far less

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

2008-08-12 Thread Jochen Topf
Hi! When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some of the nodes in the way. But looking at the XML there is no way to tell that this has happened. The way still has the same ID and timestamp. There

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

2008-08-12 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some of the nodes in the way. But looking at the XML there is no way to tell

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

2008-08-12 Thread 80n
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Karl Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! When creating excerpts of OSM data with Osmosis, Osmosis will (depending on flags) chop of ways, i.e. the output will contain ways with only some