[Talk-ca] Deleted nodes.

[G. Michael Carter]

  I tried that script and had a huge mess.  Seems that Rogers Canada 
doesn't like OSM data, or me... not sure which yet.

It kept aborting due to timeout issue.

On 06/09/10 12:45 PM, Frank Steggink wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> You might want to look at upload.py [1]. This is a family of scripts 
> related to OSM uploads and other processing. One of the benefits is 
> that with it you can "sort" the data, so that ways and relations are 
> uploaded immediately after the nodes are uploaded. This will prevent 
> large amounts of unconnected nodes. As you know, JOSM first uploads 
> all nodes, then all ways, and only then the relations.
>
> If only nodes are missing, then you could try to upload another time. 
> If you've already ended up with duplicate ways, etc. then you can try 
> to see if they are cleaned up by validating the area in JOSM, select 
> "Duplicate ways" in the Errors branch, then then fix. For some reason 
> this doesn't work all the time...
>
> Regarding those edits from magellan and the like, I've been hit with 
> them sometimes as well (not with Canvec, but with 3dShapes in the 
> Netherlands). It is very annoying. Just send them a PM that they 
> should not clean up recent data, say anything which was uploaded less 
> than a few days ago.
>
> HTH,
>
> Frank
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Upload.py
>
>
> On 10-09-06 04:44 PM, G. Michael Carter wrote:
>> I just it a rather frustrating scenario.   I was uploading a large 
>> set of data into the Thunder Bay area.   My network connection died 
>> in the middle.  (and didn't notice for a day)   No big deal, I just 
>> restarted the upload as it had been saving changes in the new JOSM.
>>
>> However, what I didn't realize is magellan 
>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/magellan> had gone in and started 
>> deleting any orphaned nodes from the now closed first change set.  So 
>> I have this big batch that I can't finish the upload as magellan has 
>> deleted all required nodes.
>>
>> I've asked magellan if they could refrain from deleting objects in 
>> that area so I can fix the batch... just wanted people to be aware if 
>> there deleting in an area.   I'm guessing magellan saw the 50,000 
>> orphaned or duplicate nodes and did a clean up while my batches were 
>> still processing.   Problem is if your uploading and it's going to 
>> take multiple change sets the first set contains all the new nodes. 
>> (thus creating duplicates and orphans)  The second or third changeset 
>> has the ways, and relations.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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