[OSM-talk] Relations not always brilliant

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Sven Grüner wrote:
> I've recently created a sandbox going the whole way from "Planet Earth" 
> to "Some Road" all in nested relations. You can browse it here:
> http://osm.schunterscouts.de/relation-browser.php
> (the URL accepts other relations as well, comments welcome)

You do know that sometimes people need to download all entities of a
relation when they download an area with a single node in it? I wouldn't
want to download all elements of "earth" when I download my
neighbourhood block. :-) How do you handle this problem?

spaetz