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<A title=antony.openstreetmap@googlemail.com
href="mailto:antony.openstreetmap@googlemail.com">Antony Walmsley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=newbies@openstreetmap.org
href="mailto:newbies@openstreetmap.org">newbies@openstreetmap.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:42
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3
times</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>I've being fixing some validator errors in JOSM and
I seem to have a road that is in the database 3 times.<BR>The area I am
looking at is : <A
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6488&lon=-2.8153&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6488&lon=-2.8153&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF</A><BR><BR>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 :<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/34487237">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/34487237</A><BR><BR>I
see that it is used in three identical overlapping ways :<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548942">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548942</A><BR><A
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548961">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548961</A><BR><A
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27561103">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27561103</A><BR><BR>How
can I sort this out?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Antony
<P>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.
<P>Whilst the dialog is open hold down the left mouse button and you can select
any of the ways individually.
<P>Select a way and delete it, then repeat process to delete the third
way.
<P>Before doing the above I would :
<P>1) check that all ways have the same tags, so you will not delete w way with
extra information
<P>2) check each way starts and ends at the same point as each of the other two
ways.
<P>David
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