[Talk-us] Untagged and unconnected nodes

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 23:39:48 BST 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A bug of some kind has caused there to be untagged, unconnected nodes to be
> present, usually in the area and shape of an existing way, as though it was
> deleted and added again in a slightly different place, but only the
> original way (and not its nodes) were deleted.

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2700
>
> In JOSM, the validator plugin checks and reports these, and I (and others)
> commonly select them and remove them.
>
> I happened to notice recently that some of the nodes that were being
> reported as untagged _are_ actually tagged. They happened to be nodes that
> I created with note=* or FIXME=* tags for things like missing streets, etc.
> These tags are documented in the wiki, and are important, widely-used tools
> for producing an accurate map.
>
> If the validator continues to consider these as "untagged", people will
> likely accidentally remove them.
>
> Should the validator be fixed?

Probably. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/newticket

It seems to happen only when the only tag is note=*.




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