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

[Renaud MICHEL]

Hello
Le dimanche 15 août 2010 à 23:42, Jonas Stein a écrit :
> 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?

I'd say the validators are right, because a node that is neither part of a 
way, nor part of a relation, and has no tags is simply useless: we have no 
idea why it sits there.

If you put a note as a reminder of something, then you should at least put a 
note tag on it.

Maybe most of those empty nodes are remnants from some time ago, when some 
editors would delete a way, but not the nodes it contained (I think there 
used to be such a bug, even before I started contributing to OSM).

-- 
Renaud Michel