[Talk-us] Duplicate TIGER imports

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 15:41 -0700, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> A few weeks after DaveHansen imported the TIGER data for Ohio [1], 
> RSatterf reimported the data for Greene County, Ohio [2]. As a result, 
> every single way in the county is duplicated. On top of that, RSatterf's 
> import also added a "loose" node (not connected to any way) for every 
> node of every way in the county. Here's an example at the 
> Montgomery–Greene county line [3]. It's a real mess, and it looks like 
> we just need to delete every node or way last edited by RSatterf. We 
> should keep ways that've been edited by another user since then, because 
> in some cases DaveHansen's motorways etc. have probably been deleted in 
> favor of RSatterf's. So does anyone have a handy mass deletion script?

Urg.  That's too bad.  Actually, on the counties that I screwed up on
and had to remove and re-apply, I just did it with pieces in JOSM I
think.

The scripts that I do have to do it are pretty tied to the BerkeleyDB
format that I used for my cache.

-- Dave