[OSM-talk] Weird objects showing up in Toronto

[Dave Stubbs]

On 28/11/2007, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some weird objects showing up in Toronto on the Mapnik layer
> that do not seem to be in the database. Most importantly, Toronto is
> labeled "Steinbach" from zooms 9-11 (http://tinyurl.com/25s79z). Also,
> there is a recycling symbol appearing at an intersection
> (http://tinyurl.com/2fdne2) that clearly shouldn't be there. There is
> no city called Steinbach in Toronto and there is no recycling depot at
> that intersection or anywhere nearby.
>

I don't know about the city name.

But the recycling is actually in the planet:

  <node id="59566115" lat="43.6443335" lon="-79.3943744"
timestamp="2007-09-24T00:11:28Z">
    <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM" />
    <tag k="highway" v="traffic_signals" />
    <tag k="description" v="Pedestrian crossing signals - do not
control Clarence Square or Wellington Street" />
    <tag k=" not activated as of 23 Sept 2007" v="yes" />
    <tag k="glass" v="yes" />
    <tag k="amenity" v="recycling" />
    <tag k="scrap_metal" v="yes" />
    <tag k="tyres" v="yes" />
    <tag k="glass_bottles" v="yes" />
  </node>

now this doesn't match what the API returns... the history request for
that node is just:
<osm version="0.5" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
  <node id="59566115" lat="43.6443335" lon="-79.3943744"
user="andrewpmk" visible="true" timestamp="2007-09-24T01:11:28+01:00">
    <tag k="created_by" v="JOSM"/>
    <tag k="highway" v="traffic_signals"/>
    <tag k="description" v="Pedestrian crossing signals - do not
control Clarence Square or Wellington Street"/>
  </node>
</osm>

So my guess is a bug somewhere in the API.