I always have all checks activated so it seems it just misses stuff
sometimes... Could the issue be that I never reinstall Josm when I update
but just overwrite the josm-tested.jar file with the new one?

/Andreas

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 6:59 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I seem to recall that JOSM allows you to pick and choose what to validate
> both for what is in JOSM and what should be validated on uploading.
>
> It's quite useful in that you can just validate for duplicate ways or
> select highway=whatever then check for crossing ways.
>
> If you're mapping in Africa the highway wiki recommends tagging path
> rather than footway.  Apparently the locals use small motorcycles on them.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 30 Jan 2017 12:29 pm, "Andreas Vilén" <andreas.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Josm validator doesn't always work. I have noticed untagged ways
>> uploaded by myself long after I created them, and I wouldn't miss a message
>> like that.
>>
>> Often it's footways where I've drawn a lot, tagged them in bulk and
>> missed a few.
>>
>> /Andreas
>>
>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>
>> 30 jan. 2017 kl. 16:23 skrev Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, to be pedantically correct*, many untagged ways are members of
>>> relations which have tags.
>>>
>>
>> untagged ways as member of a relation were not included in the count.
>> There are over 7M untagged ways that are part of a relation.
>>
>> My guess is that people started to add in a feature but somehow forgot to
>> tag them before uploading. JOSM gives a nice warning, which I've received.
>> iD gives a warning as well but not as a new dialog box that you have to say
>> yes go ahead and upload.
>>
>> Clifford
>>
>>
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