[OSM-talk] Changeset ignoring API limits?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:43 PM, MP <singularita at gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked at changeset
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5853571 and I noticed
> the page says "Has the following 79290 nodes: ... Has the following
> 15862 ways:"
>
> Isn't there supposed to be a limit of 50000 elements per changeset
> (this one contains about 95000 elements)?
>
> I looked at http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/capabilities and I see there line:
> <changesets maximum_elements="50000"/>
> ... so the limits weren't changed
>
> Does anybody know how it is possible for that changeset to bypass
> these API limits? Or is it some bug in the element-counting code?

There are definitely race conditions in the API which allow more than
50,000 elements per changeset in certain instances.  I've never seen
95,000 though.