[OSM-newbies] nodes with no tags

[Mike Thompson]

Craig,

Thank you.  I will go ahead and delete these if I encounter during other
editing after having checked their history and verified that they are of
course not part of a way or relation.


Mike


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2013-03-28 23:39, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>> Can nodes with no tags (e.g. node54182420
>> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/node/54182420<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/54182420>
>> >
>>         ) be deleted?
>>
>
> Yes, if a node has no tags, and isn't part of any ways or relations then
> it is a bug. So it should be deleted. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/**
> wiki/Untagged_unconnected_node<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Untagged_unconnected_node>
>
> Though it is worth checking the history to see where it has come from, and
> whether it is supposed to have any tags.
>
> For that node, it looks like it was originally from the TIGER import, and
> didn't have any useful tags. It may have been part of a way, if the rest of
> the way was deleted but the nodes left behind for some reason.
> There doesn't seem to be anything relevant visible on the aerial imagery
> anyway. So no problem to delete that node.
>
> Craig
>
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