> As for the timestamp =18 field, Dennis, what was your intended use > of this field? Marqqs, what is the intended use of your timestamp > optional_features field? > > By this, I mean, what semantics are you attaching to these > timestamps. I think its perfectly reasonable to have several > timestamp fields, perhaps: The timestamp the file was generated. The > state needed to resume replication of an extract/planet (which > contains an internal timestamp)? The timestamp of the when the file > was extracted/excerpted?
The main purpose was to store the replication state. --Dennis > If you two could give me a better idea of what your timestamps are > used for, I could advise on how we can try to integrate them into one > or more standard timestamp fields. And after that, we can then figure > out how we might want to assign timestamps to field names/ids --- > keeping in mind prior uses of those field names and numbers. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

