Re: [OSM-talk] empty relations

2008-06-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > Ok, so it is basically (ab)using the only locationless entity available > in OSM model to store some data, which _may_ be referenced by other > relations. It is still not clear to me how could one reference it > without having it retrieved in some bbox. You could retrieve it by id, by a

Re: [OSM-talk] empty relations

2008-06-10 Thread Stefan Baebler
Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> While analyzing current uses of relations (relations-latest.osm) it came >> to my attention that relations with no members can exist in the DB while >> they probably have no meaning in the real world. > > That's a leftover of the time when relations were planned to

Re: [OSM-talk] empty relations

2008-06-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > While analyzing current uses of relations (relations-latest.osm) it > came > to my attention that relations with no members can exist in the DB > while > they probably have no meaning in the real world. That's a leftover of the time when relations were planned to be generic "entities"

[OSM-talk] empty relations

2008-06-10 Thread Stefan Baebler
Hi! While analyzing current uses of relations (relations-latest.osm) it came to my attention that relations with no members can exist in the DB while they probably have no meaning in the real world. What's more, current editors never show such relations because they can't be related to the are