<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Mark,<br><br></div>You need to copy the data to a new layer.<br><br></div><ul><li>As it stands imported into JOSM this is an OSM object with identifiers, changeset ids and a history. OHM is a completely different system and as such the data is new. What you have tried to do is update non-existent data.</li><li>Copying into a new layer ensures that the ways are marked as new. This is described in the workflow on my <a href="http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/city-stripping-building-historical-road.html">City Stripping</a> blog.</li></ul><p>Jerry<br></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 April 2015 at 16:17, Mark Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ethnicfoodisgreat@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethnicfoodisgreat@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">Hello list. I want to transfer an abandoned railroad way from OSM to OHM. I exported the area from OSM where the railroad way is located, being careful to encompass the entire boundary of the way. I loaded that osm file into JOSM, deleted all the features except the railroad way, and then attempted to import the way (using JOSM) into OHM. I got the following error message:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"><img src="cid:image001.png@01D06C6D.7126FD00" height="180" width="656"></span><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif;color:black">I connected to OHM okay, so I know that's not the problem. Advice? Is it possible to only export one feature from OSM instead of all the features within a boundary?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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