<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp8c7b8056yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Martin,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I dont know ow experienced you are, but tools are their to rapidly see the history of objects, to confirm or not that prior to last edits these objects were valid,<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">If for example there is a valid relation, either to describe a territory, a river, a route network, if an inexperience contributor deletes some or all the members, it is important to repair, and not simply blindly update and destroy, creating even more problems.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We surely should not encourage contributors to simply fly over a territory and garden, blindly pick this, remove that thinking this is not usefull.</div><div class="ydp8c7b8056signature"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;"> <br><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="garamond, new york, times, serif">Pierre </font><br></span></div></div>
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Le dimanche 18 avril 2021 18 h 30 min 05 s UTC−4, Martin Machyna <machyna@gmail.com> a écrit :
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<p>I would be scared to do what you are suggesting. We can't know
what the original intention of the previous user were. This could
create duplicate objects or reintroduce data that were meant to be
deleted. In the end more mess then it's worth.<br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr">It is not clear if you only
want to delete relations that never had members. We need to
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<div dir="ltr">You need a tool to look at
the previous state of relations and try to repair it.
History tools might help. See for example <a shape="rect" href="https://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/</a></div>
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<div> Le dimanche 18 avril 2021 12 h 53 min 34 s UTC−4, Martin
Machyna <a shape="rect" class="ydp9b66b433yiv9750097716moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:machyna@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><machyna@gmail.com></a> a écrit : </div>
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<div>I had an idea that came during my work on a
buildings import. I would like to clear/fix improperly
created/deconstructed relations. This would include:</div>
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<div>1) Remove relations that have no members, nor are
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<div>2) Remove type=multipolygon from ways.</div>
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