On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:43 PM, MP <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at changeset > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5853571 and I noticed > the page says "Has the following 79290 nodes: ... Has the following > 15862 ways:" > > Isn't there supposed to be a limit of 50000 elements per changeset > (this one contains about 95000 elements)? > > I looked at http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/capabilities and I see there > line: > <changesets maximum_elements="50000"/> > ... so the limits weren't changed > > Does anybody know how it is possible for that changeset to bypass > these API limits? Or is it some bug in the element-counting code?
There are definitely race conditions in the API which allow more than 50,000 elements per changeset in certain instances. I've never seen 95,000 though. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
