Overpass API developpement

[michael spreng <>]

Hi list

This is driving me crazy. I have now verified that I am on the
minor_issues branch, recompiled overpass several times and tested with a
tiny extract: http://osmd.ch/small.osc

I have tried two import strategies: Import the whole osm change file
into a new database. This leads to the following error (repeated several
times)

> runtime error: Way 22701281 cannot be expanded at timestamp
2008-05-03T21:42:14Z: Bad geometry for way 22701281

The strange thing is: I requested 2008-01-01, so why does it bother with
something created later?

Then I tried to create a historical extract with osmium-tool from
2008-01-01, import that extract, then import the full change file. This
leads to a similar error, just with another way id and timestamp:

> runtime error: Way 32889548 cannot be expanded at timestamp
2012-02-15T14:05:02Z: Bad geometry for way 32889548

I tried my query against overpass-api.de, and the results from there are
incomplete, but at least there are no errors. So what is wrong with my
instance?

best regards
Michael