hi, I also experienced this problem and was well surprised that the weekly dump [1] of my town has increased by factor four.
After checking the file in JOSM I feel that XAPI just does not do as descriped for the main API. The ways and nodes I got are spread all over Europe. I even failed to figure out the relations linking them with the object I requested, but that may be due to the (still) primitive support for relations in JOSM. Should my suspicion apply that will produce desastrous outputs when relations become more popular (what I look forward to). Requesting even the tiniest BBox will return huge amounts of data. regards, Sven [1] http://osm.schunterscouts.de Daniel Taylor schrieb: > Hi, > > I had this problem the other day extracting data from the Wigan area, > when I looked at what was being downloaded it was data that was > connected/related to data that was inside the bbox I had selected. For > example a large primary road (one _long_ way) was included even though > the majority of it clearly outside of the bbox I had selected, from what > I have read this happens by design. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.5#About_bounding_boxes > > "The following command returns: > > * All nodes that are inside a given bounding box and any relations > that reference them. > * All ways that reference at least one node that is inside a given > bounding box, any relations that reference them [the ways], and any > nodes outside the bounding box that the ways may reference. " > > That might be the cause of your issues, and if so there doesn't seem to > be a way around it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
