[OSM-talk] Potlatch wayss with negative ID's

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fairhurst" <richard at systemeD.net>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch wayss with negative ID's


> David Groom wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway to force these to be uploaded again ( I have tried adding
>> tags on the way and changing existing tags, but this doesn't force the 
>> way
>> to get a valid ID)
>>
>> Or do I simply have to close the browser, loose the ways that I was 
>> trying
>> to create, and then open Potlatch again, and draw the way from scratch?
>

I did find one method of doing it, it is tedious, but if its a long way 
which is "stuck" then it might be of use.

Join a new segment onto the end of the way and merge this new way with the 
stuck way.  the new merged way gets uplaoded.

Then split the way wher you joined it, and delete the first unwanted way


> At present you do, yes. When you first try to upload a new way,
> Potlatch sets its "uploading" flag, and won't upload that way again
> until it's received a response from the server. (This was a change
> introduced the other week to stop duplicate ways being created.)
>
> Clearly in the circumstances you describe, this causes problems (I
> encountered this the other day, too). But I'm unsure how to address
> it. Should it just forget the "uploading" flag after, say, 1 minute,
> so you can retry?
>

Would it be possible to have some keyboard shortcut which would remove the 
flag and force a retry of a selected way?

In general I'd rather have the "stuck ways" than the duplicated ones.

Is there any chance of displaying a warning if ways cant be uploaded?  I hit 
a patch today where I created 15 ways which became stuck, and only noticed 
it when the way ID didn't change.


> cheers
> Richard
>
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