On 2/26/16 12:01 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> It’s an API limitation. If no node is within the bbox the API has no way of 
> knowing there should be something there. I don’t believe there is a different 
> workaround from the one you already suggest yourself, but I would be happy to 
> be wrong (as I too find this an unfortunate limitation).
>
the problem is that detecting the condition is pretty expensive.
consider long, straight boundaries that pass through your
bounding box. the search to find these segments of ways
might have to range out pretty far.

richard

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