ThomasB <toba0...@yahoo.de> wrote:

> 
> John F. Eldredge wrote
> > 
> > ThomasB &lt;toba0211@&gt; wrote:
> > 
> >> I am wondering how a way with only one node can exist in the
> database.
> >> I have
> >> deleted it but how many still exist? 
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/154820504/history
> >> 
> > 
> > Since it takes at least two points to define a line, a way with only
> one
> > node would be zero units long, and effectively nonexistent.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Follow my link and you see, that what you call "nonexistent" does
> exist in
> OSM.
> 

That is why I stated "effectively" nonexistent.  If the rendering matches the 
data, it would render as a point, not as a line.
-- 
John F. Eldredge --  j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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