[OSM-talk] Missing way in bounding box API call

[Francisco R. Santos]

On 5/30/07, Francisco R. Santos <frsantos at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On 5/30/07, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that OSM only test if nodes are in the bbox and never
> > segments or ways. (Limitation of the DB, I suppose) So I wouldn't be
> > surprised if it's a long slanted segment across the corner of the
> > bbox.
>
>
> No, it is a way with many small segments, many of them are inside the
> bounding box. It have appeared in JOSM from several months, since it was
> created, and I just noticed that it does not appears any more.
>

What the! It appears now in JOSM! mmm, I don't understand. Does the server
load affects what is returned by the API?
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