[josm-dev] restriction to delete big ways?

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hi,

On 16 May 2010 05:17, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a restriction against deletion of bigger ways? I
> found 2 overlapping ways with each more than 100 nodes:
>
> Way id=26821149 version=11
> Way id=26821088 version=12
>
> and wanted to delete the smaller one, but JOSM won't do it (there is
> not feedback, so I'm only guessing about the reason it won't delete).
> How should I proceed? Cut one in smaller pieces and delete them one by
> one?

It seems that for some time josm is ignoring user input if you're
trying to delete something that would cause a deletion of a node
outside downloaded area, (so that would mean you've not downloaded the
full area, and that not all nodes are shared in the two ways).  It's
an annoying bug/feature.

Cheers