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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I would hazard a guess that the problem is not so much that you can't delete the ways, more that the ways are still being returned as part of a bounding box even though they'be been deleted. From what little I understand about the db schema, they are in the current_ways table, but have a visible=0, or are in current_way as visible, but ways as not visible?<BR>
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Could somebody with database access actually have a look at one of these ways and see?<BR>
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Rob<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Bruce Cowan [<A HREF="mailto:bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com">mailto:bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com</A>]<BR>
Sent: Mon 3/12/2007 7:20 PM<BR>
To: Robert Hart<BR>
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org<BR>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Undeletable objects.<BR>
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On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:07 +0000, Robert Hart wrote:<BR>
> I've come across another undeletable object. This time way id="66". I<BR>
> guess I can try the remove all segments from the way, or recycle the way<BR>
> as something else entirely, but I'd like to understand why these things<BR>
> become undeletable. This obviously a really low way id, so maybe it's<BR>
> related to a bug that was later fixed?<BR>
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I remember a conversation on IRC about this issue. Somebody else told<BR>
me that is affected large ID numbers too, but I have no experience of<BR>
this.<BR>
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I have lots of undeleteable ways here, ids 1500, 1808, 1870, 1471 and<BR>
1914 to name a few. If I try to delete them, JOSM outputs this on the<BR>
terminal:<BR>
upload to: <A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1914">http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1914</A><BR>
got return: 410 with id 1914<BR>
upload to: <A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1500">http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1500</A><BR>
got return: 410 with id 1500<BR>
upload to: <A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1870">http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/1870</A><BR>
got return: 410 with id 1870<BR>
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error 410 is "Resource gone"<BR>
--<BR>
Bruce Cowan <bruce.cowan@dsl.pipex.com><BR>
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