[OSM-dev] [PATCH] make JOSM validator plugin detect empty ways

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:19 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote: 
> Dave,
> 
> I've been running Hennepin County (Minneapolis) the last few days as a test
> area (still currently on nodes, there are about 155,000 of them) as it had
> no existing data conflicts already in the database and being a major
> conurbation with some current news interest I thought it might be useful.
> 
> Concur on the ways with no segs as there are a large number in the file.
> I'll wait for the node and seg upload to finish before I worry about any
> upload failures as a result of bad ways being present. 

I've fixed up the scripts to not output these any more, but I'd finished
uploading all of a county's nodes and segments before the upload bombed
out and I didn't want to start over.  

> While it's been uploading I have been looking at the original OSM file. I
> haven't seen any positive element ID's (noted by another user) or any other
> issues. The data looked fine in JOSM so I was happy.

Excellent.

> Anyway, I shall continue to upload over the next few days and will then be
> able to look more closely at the data in OSM via smaller bbox calls, the
> whole County is rather too big to work with in JOSM.

Yeah, I've certainly noticed the same.   

-- Dave