How to delete a way I uploaded?

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Hello everyone.

How I can delete a way I uploaded ?

I find it in my osm updates, but I could not find a way to delete it.

Than I tried the TOP-LEFT button to modify it, but even there I could not find a button to delete it completely. I could edit each node and I corrected the wrong nodes, but before this I reuploaded another way I corrected manually in Google Earth first.

Now both ways are online in OSM and I can’t find an option to delete one of them.

way=151448957

Thank you.

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This way hasn’t been edited in 14 years.

EDIT: A number was missing:

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Presumably Way: ‪carare‬ (‪1514489574‬) | OpenStreetMap, added in Changeset: 182736861 | OpenStreetMap

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Are you sure this is the correct number? Looking at Way History: 151448957 | OpenStreetMap it seems to be in Alaska and doesn’t seem to have been edited in the last 14 years. You may be missing a digit from the way number.

To delete:

  • Go to https://www.openstreetmap.org/
  • Log in.
  • Navigate to the location and zoom in as far as you can.
  • Click on “Edit”.
  • Click on “Edit with iD”.
  • Use your mouse and click on the object. It should become highlighted and ‘glow’.
  • Make sure the entire object is in view.
  • Press the ‘Delete’ button on your computer. Alternatively, right-click with your mouse and click on the ‘trash can’ pictogram.
  • Click on “Save”.
  • Add an explanation of what you have done, e.g. “Deleted double-mapped shop in Sibiu." or “Added roads in Avrig.”
  • Click on “Upload”.

We don’t use Google Earth for mapping.

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I did not use Google Earth for mapping, just wanted to correct a section of the trail, but I did it trough the OSM editor in the end.

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It worked if I selected the whole path and used the keyboard to delete it fully. Initially when I tried the delete key, it deleted the points, one by one with each press.

One more questions regarding the warning I see that the path is crossing a road. Should I cut the Path in multiple segments at each road crossing ?

Is the Cutting option in left side of this screenshot for this, it will cut the path automatically ?

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Thank you

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Hi,

In this case, you should join the path and the road where they cross.

The node should probably be tagged:
highway=crossing
crossing=unmarked
crossing:markings=no

If there are crossing markings or traffic lights, etc., those tags would be different.

If the path goes over or under the road, you can use bridges and tunnels.

You should only split the path into different segments when something about the path changes, e.g. it changes from surface=asphalt to surface=ground or lit=yes to lit=no. On OSM, some ways are several km long, others are even longer.

The cutting option on the menu is for when a way (highway, railway, canal, etc.) cuts through the previous ground level, for example here: Way: ‪Luas Green Line‬ (‪82004700‬) | OpenStreetMap where the railway is below the surrounding ground level, which means the railway can easily go under the road bridges and buildings. Key:cutting - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Elsewhere, you can have an embankment, where the way is above the surrounding ground level, e.g. on approach to a bridge: Way: ‪Luas Green Line‬ (‪338110000‬) | OpenStreetMap

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