[OSM-dev] iD creates invalid (?) highway tags

[Bryan Housel]

This has been fixed so that iD will not allow a user to join ways with conflicting tags.  The fix will be in the next version released this week.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/2809 <https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/2809>

Thanks, Bryan



> On Nov 1, 2015, at 3:53 AM, GerdP <gpetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just to catch up:
> During the last two weeks I've cleaned up almost all 
> ways with an invalid highway=* tag (those containing semicolons).
> During the last 48 hours at least 19 ways with variations of these wrong
> tags
> were added by nine different users, all using iD :-(
> It seems the worst cases like 
> highway=primary;residential;secondary;tertiary_link;tertiary
> were produced trying to add ways to a route relation.
> 
> I've contacted all the mappers, but this really has to stop soon.
> 
> Gerd
> 
> 
> GerdP wrote
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I wonder why iD allows to create ways with e.g.
>> highway=primary;service
>> or similar combinations?
>> I think the highway tag (as well as e.g. surface, tracktyp)
>> are meaningless when they contain lists. 
>> 
>> I understand that this can also be done using other editors,
>> but most of the cases that I checked showed  iD as the 
>> used editor.
>> 
>> Gerd
> 
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