[Openstreetmap-dev] Coinciding ids for nodes and segments?

[Tommy Persson]

> From: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
> * @ 11/02/06 08:33:56 PM ge at gabrielebner.at wrote:
> > Somehow I was under the impression that nodes and segments could not have the
> > same ids.
> > 
> > However in map?bbox=14.7,47.5,17.2,48.5 there are at least 178 such
> > occurences; e.g. 398012, 403180:
> > 
> >   <node uid="398012" lat="48.196189681029" lon="16.3183999739673" tags=""/>
> >   <segment uid="398012" from="448965" to="448966" tags=""/>
> > 
> >   <node uid="403180" lat="48.0668234672101" lon="15.9262049930262" tags=""/>
> >   <segment uid="403180" from="451625" to="451626" tags=""/>
> > 
> > Is this intentional, a bug, a feature?
> 
> Feature.
> 
> Segments and nodes are in different id spaces.
> 

In what way is that a feature?  I would call it a misfeature...

I did not see any answer on my question about

   http://www.openstreetmap.org/svn/schema/osm.xsd

Is this document wrong?  It says:

   Make the uids unique. This declares that the "uid" attribute of the
   node, segment, track, area and property elements are all in the
   same "ID space" and have to be unique. It also allows us to
   reference them below.

I wanted to know if things was going to be fixed according to the
schema or if the schema was wrong?

/Tommy