[OSM-dev] node/way/relation IDs

Tue Sep 25 11:34:53 BST 2012

On Tuesday 25 September 2012 11:49:26 Stephan Knauss wrote:
> 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

Ok, thank you very much.

Bernhard
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