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 area that is being edited (it can't show up in any bbox API call, just in full DB dumps).
One example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/relation/2339 (this was obviously replaced by http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/relation/2340 ) There are probably more, but i guess it is easier to run an appropriate query on the MySql console to determine the magnitude of the problem. Should relations with no members be allowed? If so, how can one use such existing, but empty relations and how could one delete an obsolete relation? Not sure if the same problem occurs with empty ways, with no nodes referenced. Or are they already disallowed/deleted by API? Stefan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
