[OSM-talk] OSMXAPI question: is it me, or...

[Lambertus]

Either I don't understand how querying OSMXAPI works or I stumbled upon 
a bug. Perhaps someone can have a look at this:

I would like to download all regional cycle routes within a certain 
small area in The Netherlands. As all these routes are tagged using 
relations (checked this) I try to query these routes as relations (which 
should also return the ways and nodes according to the wiki).

On http://www.informationfreeway.org:

/api/0.5/relation[route=bicycle][network=rcn][bbox=5.5,52.0,6.3,52.3]

The result is an ~10 MB osm file that contains relations and bits of 
ways and nodes ranging from the UK to Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. 
Some ways appear to be complete, others are partly downloaded because 
there are nodes but no ways.

If I was to think that the bbox parameter is ignored (because of the 
data from far outside the bbox) then the output from OSMXAPI again seems 
incorrect because there are large areas of ways and nodes missing that 
one would expect if all rcn cycle routes are downloaded.

So it's clear; I don't understand how this result is caused or what I 
should query to get the result I'm looking for....