[Talk-us] API Behavior

[Martijn van Exel]

It’s an API limitation. If no node is within the bbox the API has no way of knowing there should be something there. I don’t believe there is a different workaround from the one you already suggest yourself, but I would be happy to be wrong (as I too find this an unfortunate limitation).
Martijn

> On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When using the standard API to download an area to edit (through JOSM) it seems that if a way runs through the bounding box you provide the API, but doesn't have any nodes in that bounding box, it will not be returned.  This can result in collecting the same data a second time because the first instance is not returned.  
> 
> 1) Is this a JOSM issue or an API issue?
> 2) Is there any work around other than to download using a larger bounding box and hope that the way in question references at least one node in that bounding box?  
> 
> Mike
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