[OSM-dev] Ways without nodes

[andrzej zaborowski]

2009/8/25 Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de>:
> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>> Unlikely but possible.
>
> Very unlikely. What too should find that relation? Josm will not. For which
> bounding box should the api return this "empty" relation?

Right that's the problem with empty relations and the only way they
could be justified is if they were a member of another relation, then
JOSM could download them.

I can mass delete the empty relations (which are not members of other
relations) like you did with ways but I will not go and check each one
of the 7k.  Would someone object to me deleting them?  What are other
ideas about the origin of empty relations?

Cheers