[OSM-newbies] nodes with no tags

[Roger Calvert]

It is common - I quite often come across them. And I have several times 
caught myself making them by idly double-clicking when thinking of 
something else. I hope I have caught and removed all those I have made - 
if not, please remove them for me!

I am quite happy to blame software for some of them - no software is 
perfect. But this applies to the 'liveware' too.

Roger

PS there was also until recently a bug in Potlatch II which created 
nodes when the background image was changed - see 
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/potlatch-dev/2012-September/001843.html.


On 03/04/2013 00:45, Mike Thompson wrote:
> Andy,
>
> Thanks for your reply.  I just visited that place in person (which was 
> why I was doing edits in the area).  I can't think of anything 
> observable on the ground that could be mapped where those nodes are 
> that would also have been part of a Tiger Import.  If the community 
> would prefer, I can just leave them.  Since I was doing edits in the 
> area I thought I would clean them up.  BTW, I have seen this in other 
> areas, and I have seen it before the redaction bot was run.  Although 
> each case may be different, it seems that in general this is a common 
> occurrence.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM, SomeoneElse 
> <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk <mailto:lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Mike Thompson wrote:
>>     Can nodes with no tags (e.g. node54182420
>>     <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/54182420>
>>
>>     	) be deleted?
>>
>
>     That particular example is one left behind by the licence change
>     redaction process (see
>     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License in the
>     wiki for some information about that).  What probably happened was:
>
>     1) Someone how didn't agree to have their data licensed under the
>     new licence added a feature
>
>     2) Someone who did added extra detail to that feature (including
>     the node that you see left behind)
>
>     3) The redaction process removed the contribution by (1) but left
>     the contribution by (2).
>
>     Where that node is, therefore, is something that someone thought
>     worthy of mapping that isn't represented on the map.  Rather than
>     just deleting it, I'd go there and see what that thing might be,
>     and map it again.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Andy
>
>
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