[OSM-dev] (no subject)

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> could somebody please explain why
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/970776
>> contains
>> <member type="way" ref="62318915" role=""/>
>> but
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/62318915/history
>> looks deleted?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Roland
>
> The way was added to the relation in version 51 at
> 2010-06-20T19:29:34Z and then the way was deleted one second later at
> 2010-06-20T19:29:35Z. In theory this should not be possible. However
> this edit was done in Potlatch 1 in live edit mode and according to
> RichardF on IRC, there were some race conditions between Potlatch 1
> and the API that could be to blame. It seems like this is the most
> likely explanation for this data.

After running a query oh my local database I think there are a total
of 208 relations which contain ways that are deleted. I may go through
and clean them up after I get back from SOTM-US. Hopefully since P1 is
declining in usage, there won't be any more created.

Toby