Newbie mistake I'm sure... I started plotting the location of Highway 101 based on my collected GPS data before the map had completely rendered... and found out afterward that the highway was already on the map. I deleted the properties (name, road number, classification) of the offending add, but can't seem to make it go away entirely.
Discussion
Comment from Pixel83 on 21 June 2008 at 00:08
To delete a way (the general expression for any street, road, highway etc.) in Potlatch (the web editor) mark it and press [Shift]-[Backspace].
For more details see:
osm.wiki/index.php/Potlatch/Primer
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