[OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

Jonas Stein news at jonasstein.de
Sun Aug 15 22:42:02 BST 2010


there are many empty nodes in the osm database.

In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint
empty nodes in the map to mark things like
"road is not mapped, but continues here"

Is there already a decision about dealing with empty nodes?

I think we should discuss that on this list in english language, 
as it concerns all mappers worldwide.

Validators claim empty nodes are defective, but are they right?
Is painting with empty nodes data that we want to have in the database?
Are there any empty nodes that make sense, or is a empty always node nonsense?

Kind regards,

-- 
Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>




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