[OSM-talk] Way missing a segment

[Dean Earley]

Ed Davies wrote:
> Inspired by the recent discussions of oneway and splitting
> ways, I want to split the A404 from High Wycombe to Amersham
> (to mark the bit past the police station and library in HW
> as one way).
> 
> Even if I download when quite zoomed out JOSM marks the way as
> incomplete.  At first I thought it was discontiguous and maybe
> the other part was in Alaska or somewhere but when I tried to
> split it anyway I got the message:
> 
>    Data error: segment 18,206,277 is deleted but part of Way
>      4,104,299.
> 
<SNIP>
> 
> Anyway, how should one go about getting rid of a segment which
> is not there?  Using wget to GET and PUT the way with a text
> edit in between would presumably work but is there a nicer
> method?

The easiest method is to manually open the .osm file, remove the 
erroneous segment and load it in josm again and upload.

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