[OSM-talk] OSMXapi

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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80n wrote:
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| On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk
| <mailto:chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
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|     I have extracted some data yesterday from OsmXapi for a range
|     [bbox=-1.1,53.63,0.16,54.17], roughly the area of East Yorkshire, UK.
|
|     In the resulting data there are nodes and ways from well outside
|     this area, for example:
|
|     <node id='46201367' lat='52.3305' lon='5.06701' user='Ed Kapitein'
|     osmxapi:users='Ed Kapitein' timestamp='2008-02-22T16:55:00Z'>
|        <tag k='AND_nodes' v='236712'/>
|        <tag k='AND_nosr_p' v='10012917'/>
|        <tag k='is_in' v='NL'/>
|        <tag k='name' v='Muiden'/>
|        <tag k='place' v='village'/>
|        <tag k='population' v='1000'/>
|        <tag k='postal_code' v='1398'/>
|        <tag k='source' v='AND'/>
|      </node>
|
|     Is this normal?
|
|
| This should be fixed now.  Osmxapi was being a bit over-zealous by
| selecting all the nodes from all the ways from all the relations under
| some circumstances.

This sounds unsustainable. It is very likely that once a few large
relations are added (a complete set of is_ins, for example), the whole
world will be interrelated. Please make this a non-default option.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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