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

[Adam Schreiber]

On Feb 10, 2008 6:39 PM, Martijn Verwijmeren <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

Could JOSM be modified to get all members of a downloaded relation or
mark the real 0 node ways somehow?

Adam