[OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Oscar Orbe
Dear listI am uploading some landuse polygons and sometimes I get the error that says something like "that node does not exist".  I think there are people removing unused nodes too fast. Perhaps those people can change their algorithms so that they only remove unused nodes whose age is at least 2

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Matt Amos
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Oscar Orbe wrote: > > Dear list > I am uploading some landuse polygons and sometimes I get the error that says > something like "that node does not exist". > I think there are people removing unused nodes too fast. > Perhaps those people can change their algorithms

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Oscar Orbe
hello:thanks for the hint.in any case, I dont think it's a good idea to remove unused nodes which are extremely recent. regards--oscar --- On Sun, 1/9/11, Matt Amos wrote: From: Matt Amos Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes To: "Oscar Orbe" Cc: talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Oscar, Oscar Orbe wrote: in any case, I dont think it's a good idea to remove unused nodes which are extremely recent. I don't think that someone dos it programatically - but if you edit an area and find a stray unused node you often delete that without checking when it was created! Your o

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 9 January 2011 14:54, Matt Amos wrote: > hi oscar. are you using diff uploads to create the polygons? if so, it > would be a good idea to group the uploaded ways and relations for the > polygon along with the nodes it needs. this would mean that such an > error wouldn't occur. i seem to remembe

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Your original complaint was about people removing *duplicate* nodes > though, not people removing fresh, unused nodes. That's another > situation; if your upload creates duplicate nodes then your upload is > buggy and should be stopped. > Not always - an import of TI

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Lennard
On 9-1-2011 17:17, andrzej zaborowski wrote: You can use the set python of scripts descibed in the wiki here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Upload.py to do this to some degree. The "smarter-sort" script sorts your changes in such a way that they look as much as possible like a manual edit.

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Matt Amos
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Your original complaint was about people removing *duplicate* nodes >> though, not people removing fresh, unused nodes. That's another >> situation; if your upload creates duplicate nodes then your upload is >> buggy

Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes

2011-01-09 Thread Oscar Orbe
--- On Sun, 1/9/11, Matt Amos  wrote: From: Matt Amos Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] To those who remove dupe nodes To: "Nathan Edgars II" Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 5:07 PM On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > Frederik Ramm w