Hi Mark, Yes. It can be annoying. But it's fairly fundamental to the OSM schema that ways belong to relations, and nothing changes in the way for being removed from the relation.
Similarly, removing a node from a way also doesn't update the node. A version update to the way would add complexity, storage, and probably still wouldn't give you what you're looking for. I'm not aware of any tools that implement a search of the history of a relation for a wayid. You can usually get a feel for what has changed by using changes by bounding box and date. But in areas with many changes, and no changes to the underlying way, it's a challenge. Ian. On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 at 14:59, Mark Rennick <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wondering if others find the lack of a version edit recorded for a > Way in OSM when a Relation is deleted from that Way? Edited with iD editor. > A version edit is only recorded against the Relation, not the Way. > > For the complete history of a Way it would seem a version edit should be > recorded against the Way as well as the Relation. Or is there an existing > simple means to see that a Relation has been removed from a Way? > > Edited Way (Relation 4869119 removed) = 48114842 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/48114842/history/7 > > > Affected Relation = 4869119 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4869119/history/9 > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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