[OSM-talk] Malformed segments

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 18:45, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> Any ideas what's causing this? I'm cleaning up some areas in London, and
> occasionally remove a segment, only to find that a direction arrow
> remains, attached to a node. I can then remove the node, leaving just a
> direction arrow, with no length. What's the cause of this?

maybe it's 2 nodes at the exact same position with a segment connecting them. 
We have had lots of them in the last readable planet.osm. For a list of 
them - created from the last planet.osm - have a look at:

For duplicate Nodes have a look at:
 http://www.ostertag.name/osm/stats/OSM_errors_node.html

Segments with the same from and to node
http://www.ostertag.name/osm/stats/OSM_errors_segment-from_eq_to.html

Segments with 0m Distance
http://www.ostertag.name/osm/stats/OSM_errors_segment-no-distance.html

-
Joerg