[OSM-dev] Completeness of the country dumps

[Matthias Julius]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:14:39 +0200, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Zbynek Winkler wrote:
>> even thought the missing things are within the export bounding box 
> 
> Geofabrik extracts are polygons, not boxes!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/FAQ says that ways are
trunkated at the border.  Is there a dummy node inserted at the
intersection with the bounding polygon?  Or is the first node outside the
border included?

In either case I suspect there are problems with merging two of those
extracts (with osmosis --merge) due to two ways with the same IDs.  Am I
missing something?

Matthias