[josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

[Richard Welty]

On 3/3/10 5:43 PM, Teemu Koskinen wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:31:32 +0200, Richard Welty 
> <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> but for people using josm w/the validator who are not aware of the 
>> issue,
>> they are told that the duplicate nodes are an error, and there's a
>> convenient
>> fix button right there.
>>
>
> But then, if he runs the validator again (either manually or on 
> upload), he gets a warning saying that a road is overlapping an area.
and perhaps there's a lesson about the current state of the validator here?

newish josm users are told they should install the validator right in 
the splash screen, they install it and
use it implicitly when uploading, it tells them there are errors, they 
"fix" them, then they get told of
different errors after they've laboriously "fixed" 20 or 50 or 100 
duplicate nodes. they don't really get
a whole lot of help in understanding the rabbit hole they've just gone 
down. they know it's a rabbit
hole, but they have no real idea what just happened.

richard