[OSM-talk] Some interesting numbers from planet.osm

[Martijn Verwijmeren]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:56:34 -0500
"Adam Schreiber" <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:
> In
> my neck of the woods a lot of these 0 node ways are contained in
> relations and have to be removed from the relationship before the bad
> way can be deleted.

I hope that you do know that not every "highway 0 nodes" in the JOSM
relations window really has 0 nodes. It just means that the way was not
downloaded from the server because it lies completely outside of the
downloaded area. So if people are removing all "highway 0 nodes" they
encounter (if that is possible?), then they are breaking the relations.

If you download a relation and all its ways and nodes like:
wget http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/relation/2746/full -O LF4.osm
and you still have a "highway 0 nodes" then it is indeed a broken way.
Else you should just ignore them.

m.v.g.,
Cartinus