[OSM-talk] Editor without relation-support makes sense?

[Matthias Julius]

Tirkon <tirkon33 at yahoo.de> writes:

>>Not supporting relations is impossible anyway; the API will not allow 
>>the deletion of a node that is part of a relation.
>
> Will this apply to the node3 in the example above as well, because the
> node itself is not member of the relation. It is only part of a way,
> which is member of the relation.

Of course not.

The API only rejects the deletion of objects that are referenced by
another one.  To delete a node that is part of a way which in turn is
member of a relation does not involve the relation.  The editor needs
to update the way and then delete the node.

Matthias