On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Elena of Valhalla
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/3/10, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Split a way and save the change without updating the relation that
>> contains the way. Voila, broken relation. This happens more often than
>> one might think; for example downloading relation members in JOSM
>> doesn't check for and download any relations that contain those
>> members.
>
> AFAIK it has already been solved in recent versions of JOSM: the
> current stable always downloads relations,
Not if you right click on a relation and download its members. Not if
you manually download a way without checking "download referrers"  Not
if you download a XAPI query of only ways.

> and splitting a way that
> belongs to a relation usually does the right thing, depending on the
> relation, at least for multipoligons and turn restrictions.
Yes, if the relation's loaded.
>
> anyway, this is an example of a problem that can (and will) be solved
> with better support for relations in the editors, not a problem
> intrinsic in the data model.

How are you going to avoid relation damage from incomplete uploads?

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