[OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Antony Walmsley wrote
>Sent: 26 November 2008 8:42 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Same way appears 3 times
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>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.

Try holding the ctrl key down when selecting.

Cheers

Andy

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>2008/11/6 Antony Walmsley <antony.openstreetmap at googlemail.com>
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>	Thanks David. It's sorted now.
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>	2008/11/6 David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
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>			----- Original Message -----
>			From: Antony Walmsley
><mailto: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
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>			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 :
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>			http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/34487237
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>			I see that it is used in three identical overlapping
ways
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>			http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548942
>			http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27548961
>			http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27561103
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>			How can I sort this out?
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>		Antony
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>		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.
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>		Whilst the dialog is open hold down the left mouse button
and
>you can select any of the ways individually.
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>		Select a way and delete it,  then repeat process to delete
the
>third way.
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>		Before doing the above I would :
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>		1) check that all ways have the same tags, so you will not
>delete w way with extra information
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>		2) check each way starts and ends at the same point as each
of
>the other two ways.
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>		David
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