id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
6807	[Patch] NullPointerException at way selection	m13022004@…	team	"What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. Start josm with osm as parameter
 2. Select coastline. see pointer in screenshot.
 3. 

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
}}}
"	defect	closed	normal		Core		duplicate	template_report