Shaun McDonald <sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> writes: > On 13 Sep 2009, at 10:56, Andrew M. Bishop wrote: > >> In OSM a relation can contain other relations but it seems that there >> is nothing to check that a relation doesn't contain itself. I can't >> think of any legitimate reason that it should be allowed though.
> From a data and technical point of view this has always been possible > in the API intentionally. It's just that no one has come up with a > good use for it yet. Since I can't see any purpose that it can serve for a route or a boundary I have edited the relations listed in my original e-mail and removed the self-recursion. As others have pointed out JOSM warned me that the relations were self-recursive when I edited them and offered to automatically fix the problem. The JOSM validator doesn't check for this condition though. For reference I created two changesets, one for route relations 12179, 15852, 80545, 101440, 163368, 165638, 167468, 170290 and one for boundary relation 57535. There are no other self-recursive relations within the UK. For the route relations the changeset is 2478746 and for the boundary relation the changeset is 2478757. >> Within the UK alone the following route relations all contain >> themselves: >> >> 12179 >> 15852 >> 80545 >> 101440 >> 163368 >> 165638 >> 165638 >> 167468 >> 168189 >> 170290 >> 170290 >> >> Also within the UK there is one boundary relation that contains >> itself: >> >> 57535 -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop a...@gedanken.demon.co.uk http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev