[OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times

[Antony Walmsley]

Sorry, I'm struggling with this again. Part of a 10 node way is duplicated
by a 3 node way. I middle click on the duplicated section and up comes a
dialog with the two ways listed. Keeping the middle button down (otherwise
the dialog disappears), I move the mouse pointer until the 3 node way is
highlighted in blue and left click. I then release the middle button and the
dialog disappears. However, nothing is highlighted for me to delete. I've
tried in zoom, select and delete modes but I can't anything to work
correctly.

2008/11/6 Antony Walmsley <antony.openstreetmap at googlemail.com>

> Thanks David. It's sorted now.
>
> 2008/11/6 David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  *From:* Antony Walmsley <antony.openstreetmap at googlemail.com>
>> *To:* newbies at openstreetmap.org
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:42 PM
>> *Subject:* [OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've being fixing some validator errors in JOSM and I seem to have a road
>> that is in the database 3 times.
>> The area I am looking at is :
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6488&lon=-2.8153&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
>>
>> The A59 north-south (approx. Sollom - Rufford) was showing up as an
>> overlapping highway. I picked a node in the middle of the way and tried to
>> split it to narrow down where the problem was but JOSM reported that the
>> node was used in more than one way. Looking at the history of the node :
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/34487237
>>
>> I see that it is used in three identical overlapping ways :
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548942
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548961
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27561103
>>
>> How can I sort this out?
>>
>> Antony
>>
>> If using JOSM a click of the middle button whilst the cursor is over the
>> way brings up a dialog box listing the three ways.
>>
>> Whilst the dialog is open hold down the left mouse button and you can
>> select any of the ways individually.
>>
>> Select a way and delete it,  then repeat process to delete the third way.
>>
>> Before doing the above I would :
>>
>> 1) check that all ways have the same tags, so you will not delete w way
>> with extra information
>>
>> 2) check each way starts and ends at the same point as each of the other
>> two ways.
>>
>> David
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