[Patch] NullPointerException at way selection

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Start josm with osm as parameter
2. Select coastline. see pointer in screenshot.

What is the expected result?
Selecting coastline

What happens instead?
NullPointerException
the object description is shown

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.
Screenshot and osm file attached

Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2011-09-05 01:31:49
Last Changed Author: bastiK
Revision: 4399
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2011-09-04 22:13:51 +0200 (Sun, 04 Sep 2011)
Last Changed Rev: 4399

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (4399 de)
Memory Usage: 107 MB / 910 MB (54 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.6.0_26, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
Operating system: Linux
Dataset consistency test: No problems found


java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.coor.LatLon.greatCircleDistance(LatLon.java:165)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.Way.getLength(Way.java:545)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.SelectionListDialog$SelectionListModel.setJOSMSelection(SelectionListDialog.java:580)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.dialogs.SelectionListDialog$SelectionListModel.selectionChanged(SelectionListDialog.java:659)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.SelectionEventManager.fireEvents(SelectionEventManager.java:78)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.SelectionEventManager.access$200(SelectionEventManager.java:20)
	at org.openstreetmap.josm.data.osm.event.SelectionEventManager$1.run(SelectionEventManager.java:85)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:641)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:84)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:602)
	at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:600)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:611)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122

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tar archive screenshot and osm file

[Don-vip]

See attached patch.

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #6761.