[OSM-talk] Strange node/seg/way duplication problem

[Andy Allan]

On 2/19/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Is there any value in keeping nodes over (say) 14 days old which
> aren't part of any segments, and have no attributes other than
> created_by?

There's a discussion on another thread about better ways to mark TODO,
but I know that I and at least one other person in my area have been
using bare nodes as ellipses to show where a road or path continues
but isn't mapped yet. I'm not saying this is a good idea, but just
flagging that it does happen.

I find ---->.------->.   .  . (or two segments and two bare nodes for
the ASCII-art-impared) really easy to spot in JOSM and understand what
it means, rather than faffing with attributes. If we start purging
bare, I don't mind doing things differently.

I find duplicate segments, duplicate nodes and zero-length segments
much harder to spot and deal with though.

Andy