[OSM-dev] Ways without nodes

[Stephan Knauss]

Hi,

is there any practical use for ways without nodes? There are over 600 of 
such ways in the database, latest one changed 2009-04-16

SELECT id FROM planet_osm_ways  WHERE # nodes = 0

I dtored an extracted list here:
http://www.stephans-server.de/osm/zeroways.xml

The affected ways don't seam to have anything in common. Some changes 
had even been made by xybot.
Is this a known problem that somehow nodes can get lost during the upload?

Is it of any use for the project to fix these? I also extracted ways 
consisting of only a single node.

Should the API check this?

Stephan