[OSM-talk] Crazy ways after editing

[David Muir Sharnoff]

Should I attempt to manually fix these ways?   Since I don't know what
caused the problem in the first place, I'm afraid to touch anything.

Looking at the specific problems, I think that most of the points I
touched during one longish editing session got moved several miles
away (and all by the same amount).   Some points from the session
did not get relocated.   For example, 6346890, Sotelo Ave is still fine.

I was using Potlach.   Thinking back, the thing I did differently this time
is that I did almost all of my editing while using flash-zoom.

Thanks,

-Dave

On Feb 5, 2008 11:06 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
<blackadderajr at googlemail.com> wrote:
> David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
> >Sent: 05 February 2008 6:46 PM
> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: [OSM-talk] Crazy ways after editing
>
> >
> >The area of Oakland, California I've been editing
> >(with Potlatch) suddenly changed in a very bad way.
> >
> >There are a whole bunch of ways (at least 50,
> >perhaps a lot more) that have had one or more
> >of their points move several miles south-east.
> >
> >A major street, Park Ave, seems to have
> >disappeared entirely.   Or, at least, I can't find
> >it any more.
> >
> >Edit at this location to see:
> >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.81886&lon=-
> >122.21229&zoom=16&layers=B0FT
> >
> >Some example ways that are messed up:
> >6403309, Saint James Dr.
> >6380125, Somerset Rd
> >6365079, Pershing Dr
> >6391271, Indian Rd
> >6381464, Hampton Rd
> >6374990, Excelsior Ave
> >6359191, E 33rd St
> >6390297, Everett Ave
> >
> >Does anyone have any idea what happened
> >or how to fix it?
> >
>
> Yikes, that looks nasty.
>
> It looks like you have managed to slide the missing way across in the editor
> view and then end up deleting the way that all those nodes were attached to.
> You should be able to revert the way in Potlatch and you can get the
> original positions from the history of each moved node.
>
> eg http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/node/53018116/history
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> >Thanks,
> >-Dave
> >
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