osmosis can't parse un-uploaded 0.6 .osm files (from JOSM, other tools) due to requiring version=""

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: avarab[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 2.54pm, Sunday, 10th January 2010]

(This is related to #2474)

osmosis will die on files like this one:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<osm version='0.6' generator='JOSM'>
  <node id='-1' visible='true' lat='0.9821734421147642' lon='-1.0863279795680407' />
  <node id='-2' visible='true' lat='-1.4618577742968084' lon='0.6155858550885565' />
  <way id='-3' visible='true'>
    <nd ref='-1' />
    <nd ref='-2' />
  </way>
</osm>

It shouldn't require the version attribute on elements with a negative id attribute. This breaks using osmosis as a preprocessor before one uploads a file generated by some script (like *2osm).

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: brett[at]bretth.com
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.41am, Monday, 6th September 2010]

Osmosis is not compatible with JOSM format OSM files. JOSM OSM files are editor oriented and deviate from Osmosis in a number of ways (version and action attributes at least ...) If you wish to discuss this in more detail please post to the osmosis-dev mailing list, but for now there are no plans to rectify this.