<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">><span class="gmail-im"><br></span>I think a hint like JOSM presents you when
you try to upload an untagged way or node (that aren't part of a
relation either) should be sufficient. I wouldn't reject those ways by
the api. There might also be some sense in this, e.g. when working on
big things a mapper might want to upload part of his work before it is
finished, to continue work on it later.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Well yes but how long do you wait?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 January 2017 at 07:19, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-30 11:16 GMT+01:00 Rory McCann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rory@technomancy.org" target="_blank">rory@technomancy.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> I would be interested in hearing from you why we should ever allow<br>
> untagged ways to be uploaded.<br>
<br>
</span>Well, to be pedantically correct*, many untagged ways are members of<br>
relations which have tags.</blockquote></div><br><br></span>I think a hint like JOSM presents you when you try to upload an untagged way or node (that aren't part of a relation either) should be sufficient. I wouldn't reject those ways by the api. There might also be some sense in this, e.g. when working on big things a mapper might want to upload part of his work before it is finished, to continue work on it later.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>
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