On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:19:42 +0200, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org
wrote:
Hi,
Jonas Stein wrote:
In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint
empty nodes in the map to mark things like
road is not mapped, but continues here
I do this occasionally, and I'm sure I haven't made this up but got
the practice from someone/somewhere else - when a way is drawn and you
know it goes on but haven't mapped it, you put three dots, just as
you do in written language:
--- . . .
I'm not religious about it but I think it is pretty elegant because
it does not require language to explain it - or at least that's what I
thought until I heard from several people that they delete empty
nodes on sight without further thought.
It's the first that I heard of this strategy and I'm not sure if I
would recognize it. I certainly haven't in the past.
It does raise a question: why not just map a way over it and tag it
with some FIXME? If I map a new area and make photo's and see that there
is a road somewhere that I didn't go, I map the road as far as I can see
it and.
I mean - an empty node somewhere in the middle of town which has sat
there for ages, ok, but if you saw something like the above, where the
three nodes clearly hint at a way continuation - would you really
remove them? I'd think that a bit careless.
I would at least tag the nodes with a FIXME. Personally I do make a
point of looking at the history of a stray node, but that is far from
failsafe.
Regards,
Maarten
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