The wiki says nothing about it, as a certainty or uncertainty. Does anybody with field experience know whether way tags will always come after the refs? asked 16 Jun '15, 20:41  CrazyDave2345 |
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I would suggest not building a parser that depends on a specific order, which shouldn't be an issue in any case. The specifics are likely to be implementation dependent and might and will differ between APIs and the numerous tools that process and provide OSM data. answered 16 Jun '15, 21:03  SimonPoole ♦ edited 23 Jun '15, 09:07 |
The answered 23 Jun '15, 08:17  Frederik Ramm ♦ |
Depends where you get them from. The files on (say) planet.openstreetmap.org will usually conform to this. However there is no guarantee that this will happen. You might try to use a tool that will produce an XML file in a different manner. So you should be able to handle files with many different orderings. So to answer your question: No, you cannot rely on that. answered 17 Jun '15, 08:36  rorym |
