[OSM-talk] OSMXAPI returning points outside bounding box

[Robin Paulson]

On 18/03/2008, David Dean <ddean at ieee.org> wrote:
>  But, there are a bunch of nodes in the XML file outside that bounding box:
>
........
>
>  After a bit of that, the reset of the xml file seems ok, but something weird is
>  clearly happening here.
>
>  Any ideas?

seeing as no-one more knowledgeable has answeeed, i'll have a go:

are they components of ways which are partly within the bbox, partly outside it?

i think if you request a bbox which has roads (or any ways), which are
partly outside, it downloads the entirety of the way, including the
nodes not constrained by the box? but i'm not 100%