[OSM-talk] question about untagged green points

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/7/31 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>:
>
> Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> did you give JOSM a try? It doesn't suffer from partly loaded
>> data, which might be the issue in your case.
>
> I doubt that very much indeed. Potlatch can't load a way without loading its
> constituent nodes; nor can it find a node which is part of a way without
> loading the way.

might be, that I didn't understand exactly how this error is caused,
but it definitely is a Potlatch-error. Also I can tell you that I was
quite pleased to see the recent progress of potlatch. It also has some
cool unique features (like undelete). It is stylish. It is NOT a piece
of shit. It was not my intention to express this. But there is some
problems that result from not using the API that insert errors in the
data. As I tried to explain you in another thread, in my area /
network conditions / backbone connection (or whatever, no idea where
it comes from, possibly from the local ISP, db-overload, etc.)
potlatch shows some problems with the database connection but still
allows you to draw (maybe even in the "without save"-mode, which I
would never use for the potential risk) without having downloaded the
database content for the current screen.

> Ed - generally, such nodes are a sign that saving a way was interrupted
> somehow. If you can consistently find something that's not behaving as it
> should then let me know.

that's the point: not using the API which would prevent this from
happen (at least I guess this).

cheers,
Martin