[Talk-us] Deleting standalone empty nodes?

2015-12-07 Thread Steve Friedl
Hello all, I'm mapping mostly in Southern California where I live and hike, and sometimes I run across nodes with no tags, not part of anything, often the owned by some kind of bot. You can't see them directly in OSM, but in JOSM there's a trail of them paralleling Santiago Truck Trail: ht

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting standalone empty nodes?

2015-12-07 Thread Paul Fox
steve wrote: > Is there ever any benefit in a standalone node with no tags, especially if > it doesn't appear to be in an "interesting" location relative to underlying > imagery? corollary: is there ever any benefit in a standalone way (not in a relation) with no tags? i've come across those

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting standalone empty nodes?

2015-12-07 Thread Hans De Kryger
Ive found a bunch in Phoenix Arizona also On Dec 7, 2015 6:46 PM, "Paul Fox" wrote: > steve wrote: > > Is there ever any benefit in a standalone node with no tags, especially > if > > it doesn't appear to be in an "interesting" location relative to > underlying > > imagery? > > corollary: is

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting standalone empty nodes?

2015-12-07 Thread Mike N
On 12/7/2015 8:39 PM, Steve Friedl wrote: Most of them are by bots – OSMF Redaction Account, woodpeck_fixbot – and they appear to be spurious, but I’m not sure if they are there for a reason. Is there ever any benefit in a standalone node with no tags, especially if it doesn’t appear to be in an

Re: [Talk-us] Deleting standalone empty nodes?

2015-12-07 Thread Russ Nelson
Steve Friedl writes: > I'm mapping mostly in Southern California where I live and hike, and > sometimes I run across nodes with no tags, not part of anything, often the > owned by some kind of bot. Chances are very good that they are leftovers from an edit that someone made who chose not to agr