[OSM-talk] Modifying ways.

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:20:22AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:43:09AM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> > b) When someone else downloads the area with a bit of the way in it,
> > they don't have to keep following it for 5km downloading new chunks of
> > data before they can modify it.
> Does not doing this in JOSM break things?

Ok, I've been told that this wording has confused at least two people.

Specifically, if I grab some data from OSM and want to extend a partial
way JOSM will warn about not having all the way data.  If I ignore that
warning and add a segment or two to a way regardless and then upload it,
is that bad?  Does it cause any problems anywhere or is JOSM's warning
just advisory as I had assumed?

Simon.

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