On 3 Aug 2011, at 15:45, Claudius wrote: > Am 03.08.2011 02:34, Lester Caine: >> Tom Hughes wrote: >>> 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. > > You are probably aware that version numbers were added in 2009 with the API > 0.6 change [1]. So judging from the changedate the low number anomalies you > have discovered are probably related to those early testing and fixing phase. >
Eh? As part of the API 0.6 development we started setting up dev apis, specifically for API testing, rather than polluting the production data. Shaun > Claudius > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_changes_between_v0.5_and_v0.6 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
