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 ID and timestamp. > There should be a way of recognizing theses chopped of ways, say by > adding an incomplete="true" attribute or something. > > This question came up on the German mailing list after somebody had used > the excerpt as basis for some automated fixing of data. He (IMHO correctly) > checked the Osmosis excerpt with current data from the API by comparing > the timestamps which were the same. So he assumed nothing had changed > and he could safely edit the data. But because of the excerpt process > the data he based his decision on, was not correct. > > This is part of a larger problem. Say you create an extract with only > some of the tags or a relation with only some members. > > Jochen > I made a mistake making way truncation the default behaviour. I intend to fix this but feel free to raise a defect in TRAC.
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