There might be ways from Hull to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge as ferry routes - I'll check the relations but when I retrieve sub-sets in JOSM of api data I don't get chunks of Netherlands or Germany which seem to be in the download. cheers, Chris >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. >If you find one let me know! >- Daniel ___________________________________________________________ Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk