I didn't find any indication that nodes, ways and relations have separate ID spaces, so I assumed that IDs are unique across all OSM entities. Thanks for correcting my mistake.
"integrity violations" might be poor choice of words (Serge is right English isn't my native language). I didn't want to blame OSM developers, so if anyone has been offended, I am sorry. -- Lukas On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lukas Kabrt <lu...@kabrt.cz> wrote: > >> Before I start fixing this error, it would be nice to know whether >> this is an exceptional case or whether these kind of integrity >> violations happens more often. >> >> Has anyone seen other elements with duplicate IDs? What is the best >> way to fix it in the database? > > I'm going to assume from your name and your domain that English isn't > your first language, but I think it needs mentioning that stating that > this is an "integrity violation" is a bit offputting. > > As others have mentioned (as well as the OSM documentation), IDs are > not guaranteed to be unique across element types, and so if your code > does, then this is simply a bad assumption on your part. > > You may not have intended your mail to sound like you were blaming OSM > developers for being in error, but that's how it came off. > > - Serge _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
