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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
