Roland Olbricht

Writing here because someone has cross-linked > Some insight & (later) suggestions: > > [Overpass API § Documentation § Commons](//dev.overpass-api.de/overpass-doc/en/preface/commons.html): I appreciate that you care. But I can reassure you...

> This requires more detailed investigation, but initially I'm confused as to why https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1chd outputs the geometry of ways & relations. Please look at the data tab. When you ask...

Short answer: the underlying earth model of Overpass API is a sphere with 40.000 km circumference. Thus, length() works as intended. [Long answer](https://dev.overpass-api.de/blog/flat_world.html#geojson): There are three substantially different degrees of...

Thank you for the input. The more likely way forward is to figure out a way for error messages in the CSV format. Thus I'm marking this one as a...

The feature will be added in the next version.

By the way: Thank you for the idea. I've just never thought about it. It would be technically feasible, at least for ways. And possible, but more demanding for relations....

The deeper problem is that it leads to a large .map.idx file. This is a huge problem because the .idx files must be loaded into memory at each startup. I...

Please have a look at [this blog post](http://dev.overpass-api.de/blog/sliced_time_and_space.html#compare). You can now get extra context for a diff.

Well, this is for the adiff intentional: The result tells you that the object existed before but would not have been a result of the query. This is symmtrical to...

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