[OSM-newbies] [Talk-us] Possible destructive bug in JOSM build 2417 - need someone to duplicate

Chris Hunter chunter952 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 05:30:50 GMT 2009


Yeah, that's exactly what was happening to me.  The best part is when you
try to delete the "empty" way, the real way gets deleted instead.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Nakor <nakor.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
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>  My apologies if this has already been reported to the dev mailing list,
>> but I've been running up against a critical/showstopper bug in JOSM 2417 for
>> the past few days.
>>
>> Can someone please try and duplicate this "precondition failed" bug:
>>
>> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3884
>>
>> Here is the chain of events that seems to cause the most frequent
>> problems:
>>
>> 1. Download and edit a small area (1 square mile or so).
>> 2. Move along a way that was just edited, and download another small area.
>> 3. Upload changes, but leave the changeset open. - Error may occur at this
>> point.
>> 4. Download and edit some more small areas along the same way.
>> 5. Attempt to upload the new changes using the open changeset - Error
>> *WILL* occur at this point.
>>
>> Depending on if the validator plugin is installed or not, you may also get
>> a slew of warning messages about duplicate nodes.
>>
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>>
> I confirm the issue with 2417. I have it when downloading small areas along
> my GPS tracks. A lot of ways come in "empty" (with 0 nodes) which causes
> problems later for the validator and when trying to upload my work.
>
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