[josm-dev] restriction to delete big ways?

[Matthias Julius]

andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Unless something has changed since I looked last time, JOSM asks by
default whether or not to delete nodes outside the download bounding
box.  This message box has a "Do not ask again" check box.  Checking
this should cause JOSM to remember the user's choice and apply it in all
future ocasions.  This can be reset somewhere in the Advanced
Preferences.

Matthias