On 16/12/09 17:02, hy-soft wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > >> As opposed to what? A timestamp specified in the uploaded XML file? >> >> That has (as far as I know) always been the case - any timestamp in the >> uploaded XML is discarded. Certainly I believe API's 0.4 to 0.6 have >> worked in that way, which covers the last couple of years. > Ok, if this is the case I might not have noticed this behaviour when > working previously with osm. > sorry. > But I always interpreted this timestamp as the date/time, when the > mapper who uploaded the item visited the place.
That's certainly never been the case because no editor has ever provided the ability to set a date for an object in that way. The most they could ever have done is to set the date it was entered into the editor. But, like I say, I don't believe the API has ever allowed them to even do that. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
