[OSM-dev] missing nodes

[Stephan Knauss]

Hi David, 

David Prime writes: 

> wrote my own filter tool which gave the same results. Looks like it's just
> how it is, but I'm wondering what the point of a way with broken noderefs
> is. Is it corruption or a feature?

There shouldn't be that many missings refs at all. 

What is the source of your England dump? Is it contained there? I read your 
sentence below that it is already missing in your input file. 

>> > to get chopped off at borders and so on but I've done it manually via a
>> > java program that parses the full england dump and I've counted
>> > ~1.3million
>> > ways which reference nodes that I could not find in the same XML file.
 

Stephan