Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

2012-08-28 Thread Christian Quest
The idea behind my questions is to differentiate as much as possible tag edits and geometry edits. The idea is that updating tags in a database is a straightforward job compared to updating geometries that usually needs much more resources. Any improvement in the database update process that can l

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

2012-08-28 Thread Roland Olbricht
> The docs you list are a bit confusing, so I went to the XML itself, > and that has some issues, mainly name/document related. > > 1. The "osm" tag name is already used for a format, so I suggest not using > it. > > Similarly "osmChange" or "osc" files are already maybe you should call > this so

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

2012-08-28 Thread Roland Olbricht
> A few questions... > > When the change on a node or way is just a tag change and does not > involve geometry change, are the diff still providing all linked > nodes/ways ? Yes, they do. Thank you for pointing this out. I think it would be resonable to not include a way when the only change is

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

2012-08-28 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > The details are documented in the wiki > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Augmented_Diffs The docs you list are a bit confusing, so I went to the XML itself, and that has some issues, mainly name/document related. 1. The

Re: [OSM-dev] Augmented Diffs

2012-08-28 Thread Christian Quest
BRAVO ! I started a talk on the same idea on the french osm-dev-fr list. About relations, the need to reconstruct their geometry is depending on their final use where ways geometry are mostly needed and I feel they are more resource hungry. A few questions... When the change on a node or way is

Re: [OSM-dev] Weird branches on github mirrors

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Hartmann
On 08/28/2012 10:39 AM, Andy Allan wrote: Hi all, When I clone various projects from github (e.g. mod_tile) I get weird cascading branches From https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile * [new branch] git-svn-> upstream/git-svn 96e542f..1739c6b master -> upstream/master

[OSM-dev] Weird branches on github mirrors

2012-08-28 Thread Andy Allan
Hi all, When I clone various projects from github (e.g. mod_tile) I get weird cascading branches >From https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile * [new branch] git-svn-> upstream/git-svn 96e542f..1739c6b master -> upstream/master * [new branch] mirror/git-svn -> upstream/m