Tom Hughes wrote:
On 02/08/11 18:43, Lester Caine wrote:
Richard Mann wrote:
I think he was joking about reusing ids (he was illustrating the point
with the sort of daft temporary fix that someone might do ... if they
were daft)
Well someone has set up the system to reuse them !!!!
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1/history
THAT is a joke :(
PLEASE can someone disable that corruption before it goes too far?
Nobody has setup a system to reuse anything.
All you are seeing there is the result of badly written programs and the
like doing perfectly normal REST writes to node 1. When such mistakes
are made people revert them. Shit happens, and we deal with it.
How exactly do you suggest that we "disable that corruption"?
I just started at '1' to see how good things were, and a few of the nodes I then
worked through showed questionable changes ...
Actually it's interesting looking at some of the raw history. There are a block
below 1400, many of which are original nodes, but some seem to have these
strange edits, then there is a jump to 77858, which I presume was a hick-up
somewhere along the line very early on, except that the 1300 series nodes post
date 77858, so something is/was going wrong somewhere? Some of these early node
numbers have been edited earlier this year ...
"Shit happens, and we deal with it." still has the problem of identifying where
the shit has happened and working out how to deal with it. Increasingly looking
at the history I've been spotting places where useful tags have been removed
when later edits were added but there is no mechanism to flag what is being
deleted? I've not noted down the node numbers, but a series of edits relating to
wheelchair access seem to have removed the name or other tags rather than
maintaining them ...
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