[OSM-talk] Way missing a segment

Dean Earley dean at earlsoft.co.uk
Wed Jan 24 08:11:27 GMT 2007


Ed Davies wrote:
> I asked:
>>> 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?
> 
> Dean Earley replied:
>> The easiest method is to manually open the .osm file, remove the 
>> erroneous segment and load it in josm again and upload.
> 
> Good idea, I'll give it a go.  Presumably you mean: export the
> .osm, delete everything but the way with the problem, delete
> the offending segment reference, restart JOSM, read in the
> .osm and then upload?

You don't really need to delete all other data. It will only upload 
changes. speaking of which, you need to mark it as modified for it to be 
uploaded. I'd recommend the "reorder way" in JOSM afterwards just to 
remove any duplicates and tidy it up.

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