Missing geometry in history tables

[nanodan]

select geometry is null as IsNull, count(1) Cnt
  from `bigquery-public-data.geo_openstreetmap.history_ways` 
 group by 1

Returns 274,408,759 empty geometries and 1,042,637,220 that have geometries. This seems to happen whenever there are no tags, similar to #26

[allenday]

@nanodan please submit this as a bug report upstream to gdal. That's The right place for it to be fixed, and when it is the fix will propagate to BQ, although it will require a full history reprocessing (we will do this)

[nanodan]

OSGeo/gdal#3208

[nanodan]

@allenday I opened a ticket with the gdal folks but they want more details on the process before anything is actionable. Could someone address their questions in that ticket as I don't know the intimate details of your conversion and upload process.

[nanodan]

Note that this was closed in GDAL for lack of further details to action on their side. Can someone with more knowledge of Google's ingestion process re-open that ticket?