On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:45:44 +0200, Frank Sautter <openstreet...@sautter.com> wrote: > Valent Turkovic schrieb: >> But still ideal situation is that bots also use much smaller areas >> for edits so that you see if some bot has changed something in your >> area of interest, right? > most bots (and also xybot) do not have any clue about the spatial > aspects of a way or relation. > > normally a osm-xml file is piped through a bot (e.g. perl script). if it
> stumbles upon something fishy (e.g. a multiple consecutive nodes in a > way) it will correct this problem on this entity. it does not know where > in the world this problem is. it doesn't have a big database in the > background which it could query where this entity is located and store > it until the pipe has reached EOF and then make some handy spatial > chunks of all its changes. Do correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the nodes have lat/lon with them and is the location therefore known? Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
