On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Alan Mintz > <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> A bug of some kind has caused there to be untagged, unconnected nodes to be >> present, usually in the area and shape of an existing way, as though it was >> deleted and added again in a slightly different place, but only the >> original way (and not its nodes) were deleted. > > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2700 >> >> In JOSM, the validator plugin checks and reports these, and I (and others) >> commonly select them and remove them. >> >> I happened to notice recently that some of the nodes that were being >> reported as untagged _are_ actually tagged. They happened to be nodes that >> I created with note=* or FIXME=* tags for things like missing streets, etc. >> These tags are documented in the wiki, and are important, widely-used tools >> for producing an accurate map. >> >> If the validator continues to consider these as "untagged", people will >> likely accidentally remove them. >> >> Should the validator be fixed? > > Probably. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket > > It seems to happen only when the only tag is note=*. >
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/5174 Apparently this was bad advice; now the validator is worse (formerly it only showed note=FIXME foo as untagged; now FIXME=foo is too). Is vandalism vandalism if it's sanctioned by the JOSM programmers? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
