On 5 Jan 2009, at 14:18, Dave Stubbs wrote: > 2009/1/5 <[email protected]>: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6§ion=14#Reliably_identifying_users >> >> Do uid and username have to be present for uploads? >> I am currently specifying a file-format not primarily >> intended for editors and would like to know if I can >> loose this info and still allow for small changes to >> be uploaded. >> > > > The API will ignore timestamp/uid/username if present, and use the > current time and logged in user. The version number of the object is > needed to verify you're editing the latest edit. > > So yes, you can safely drop the user (and timestamps), and as long as > you keep the version number it can still be used to make edits. >
I'd also like to make the code so that it doesn't even parse the visible/timestamp/uid/username, thus reducing the processing required when editing the data. Is there likely to be a problem caused by doing this? Is the xml parsing code used for anything other than the data editing in the api? Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
