<div dir="ltr"><div><div>You can also use OSM inspector to find untagged ways:<br><br><a href="http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging&lon=-1.25144&lat=5.12425&zoom=13&opacity=0.63&overlays=ways_without_tags">http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=tagging&lon=-1.25144&lat=5.12425&zoom=13&opacity=0.63&overlays=ways_without_tags</a><br><br></div>and it's of course the better option instead of adding load to Overpass API.<br><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-30 2:47 GMT+01:00 Jo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com" target="_blank">winfixit@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Untagged ways in a bbox:<br><br><a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/sFU" target="_blank">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/<wbr>sFU</a><br><br>way({{bbox}})(if:count_tags()=<wbr>=0)->.w1;<br>rel(bw.w1);way(r)->.w2;<br>(.w1; - .w2;);<br>(._; >;);<br>out meta;<br><br></div>Michael beat me to the answer for the other query. Way too many comes near as an answer.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Jo<br><div><div><br></div></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-30 2:01 GMT+01:00 john whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Many of the untagged ways are from JOSM and that warns before uploading as well.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Out of curiosity does any one have a count of the number of untagged ways and area=yes in the database?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks John</div></div><div class="m_-6047790878805257150HOEnZb"><div class="m_-6047790878805257150h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 Oct 2017 8:53 pm, "Bryan Housel" <<a href="mailto:bryan@7thposition.com" target="_blank">bryan@7thposition.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Haha I promise I won’t be offended. I welcome the criticism - this is part of working on something that matters to a lot of people.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, iD already does train the user in the walkthrough how to assign tags, and iD does warn the user on the save screen if they are uploading untagged features. </div><div><br></div><div><div>So, what would you prefer iD do.. Just not upload untagged things? We could do this, and I don’t have any strong opinion one way or another. </div><div><br></div><div>In the past, the thinking has been that it’s better to accept an imperfect contribution than to turn away an imperfect contributor. The map is used for a lot of things these days - so maybe we should rethink this as a community how we handle obviously bad edits.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Bryan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:23 PM, Jo <<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com" target="_blank">winfixit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-6047790878805257150m_-138045100485657256m_4573931304774991277Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, it's amazing that after all these years of reporting it, that BUG in iD still hasn't been resolved. But don't dare to complain, we might offend Bryan.<br><br></div>Polyglot<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-29 23:47 GMT+01:00 Mark Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark+osm@carnildo.com" target="_blank">mark+osm@carnildo.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:15:18 +0200<br>
Safwat Halaby <<a href="mailto:swiftfast@gmx.com" target="_blank">swiftfast@gmx.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> - Adding closed ways with area=yes instead of building=yes, or with no<br>
> tags at all<br>
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</span>A closed way with "area=yes" is a *very* common newbie mistake with iD:<br>
the user traced an area, then forgot to tag it, or didn't realize they<br>
needed to apply additional tags.<br>
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Mark<br>
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