[OSM-talk] OSM Inspector

[Richard Bullock]

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> Use the excellent OSM Inspector. There is loads you can do to sort out 
> errant geometry for instance.

I've been looking at this for the past couple of weeks. I'd almost finished 
sorting out all of the UK geometry problems marked outside of the London 
area - however, I leave it for about 3 days, and the number of geometry 
problems have increased again, with new problems being created. Most of 
these are either mistakes or oddities in the way some people go about 
tagging: there are many places with roads that don't connect to any others - 
many roads which have several ways layered on-top of each other, mostly 
using the same nodes - I even found one place where one-way roads were 
overlayed on top of each other in different directions.

There is plenty to fix out there.