Antony Walmsley wrote >Sent: 26 November 2008 8:42 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times > >Sorry, I'm struggling with this again. Part of a 10 node way is duplicated >by a 3 node way. I middle click on the duplicated section and up comes a >dialog with the two ways listed. Keeping the middle button down (otherwise >the dialog disappears), I move the mouse pointer until the 3 node way is >highlighted in blue and left click. I then release the middle button and >the dialog disappears. However, nothing is highlighted for me to delete. >I've tried in zoom, select and delete modes but I can't anything to work >correctly.
Try holding the ctrl key down when selecting. Cheers Andy > > >2008/11/6 Antony Walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanks David. It's sorted now. > > > 2008/11/6 David Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Antony Walmsley ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:42 PM > Subject: [OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times > > Hi, > > I've being fixing some validator errors in JOSM and I >seem to have a road that is in the database 3 times. > The area I am looking at is : >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6488&lon=- >2.8153&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF > > The A59 north-south (approx. Sollom - Rufford) was >showing up as an overlapping highway. I picked a node in the middle of the >way and tried to split it to narrow down where the problem was but JOSM >reported that the node was used in more than one way. Looking at the >history of the node : > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/34487237 > > I see that it is used in three identical overlapping ways >: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548942 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548961 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27561103 > > How can I sort this out? > > > > Antony > > If using JOSM a click of the middle button whilst the cursor is >over the way brings up a dialog box listing the three ways. > > Whilst the dialog is open hold down the left mouse button and >you can select any of the ways individually. > > Select a way and delete it, then repeat process to delete the >third way. > > Before doing the above I would : > > 1) check that all ways have the same tags, so you will not >delete w way with extra information > > 2) check each way starts and ends at the same point as each of >the other two ways. > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.10/1812 - Release Date: 25/11/2008 >7:53 PM > _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
