[OSM-talk] Bug in iD?

[Andy Townsend]

On 17/03/2016 22:44, Adrian wrote:
> A user of the iD editor has added a new way along an existing way, with the two ways sharing the same nodes. In so doing, he has replaced all the nodes of the existing way with new nodes. The old nodes have been deleted. The new nodes are in exactly the same positions as the old nodes. If an old node had tags, the tags are reproduced on the new node. If an old node was a member of a relation, the new node replaces the old node in the relation, with the same position and role. These things would be difficult to do in JOSM.
>
> See, for example
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37338712 - 144 nodes deleted
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/280996572/history versions 1 and 2
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/155392067/history versions 1 and 2

It's not a problem that I've heard of with iD before.  It might be worth 
mentioning it to the iD developer over at 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues , but without some idea of 
how it was created I suspect it's going to be difficult for them to do 
anything.

What I'd suggest is to try talking to the mapper via a changeset 
discussion comment, politely explaining what the problem is and what you 
did to fix it, and asking how the data ended up as it did in the first 
place.

I'd add the comment to the discussion in both English and French (if you 
don't speak French machine-translated between those languages won't be 
perfect but will I'm sure be good enough; if you're worried that the 
results might be wrong machine-translate it back to English to 
double-check).  You may not get a reply, but at least you've tried to 
find out :)

Cheers,

Andy