Is it possible to create new nodes with this library?

[RayBB]

Hello,

Apologies if I'm missing something obvious here.
I've successfully created a new modify changeset with no problem following here.

However, I don't see how I can create new nodes using the create section because it seems an ID is required for the feature but how can I get the ID of a node that isn't already created?

create is a list of OsmFeature, which require an id.
Perhaps there a create feature functionality somewhere that I'm missing?

Any advice on how to work around this?
Your library is really great and I'd like to keep using it but this final peace is stumping me right now.

Edit: Ah I now see the ID can be set to -1 for new nodes. However, it seems there are still several required fields (for typescript) changeset, timestamp, user, version, uid that shouldn't be required.

[k-yle]

Hey, in OpenStreetMap, when you create a new feature, you assign it a negative ID number, and send that to the uploadChangeset API. The API then allocates a permanent ID.

For example, to create a square building, you would create node -1, node -2, node -3, and node -4.

And then create way -1, which references nodes [-1, -2, -3, -4, -1].

I'm not sure if there's a wiki page which explains this, but you could try export you edits from iD as a osmChange file, and inspect the XML file to understand how it works.

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regarding the other attributes, you have to set them to the default value manually (example here). It's a bit annoying, but this library tries to be simple and match how the raw XML works. A helper function might be a nice enhancement...