[OSM-dev] node/way/relation IDs

[Stephan Knauss]

Bernhard R. Fischer writes: 

> Do nodes, ways, and relations share a common pool of IDs (i.e. there is no 
> node which has the same ID as a way), or do those object have separate ID 
> pools (i.e. there may be a node which has the same ID as a way)?

No, their ID is independent, ID numbers carry no relationship between 
elements: 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements#Common_attributes 

Stephan