[OSM-talk] Untagged Nodes and Ways

Andreas Vilén andreas.vilen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 17:26:28 UTC 2017


The Josm validator doesn't always work. I have noticed untagged ways uploaded by myself long after I created them, and I wouldn't miss a message like that.

Often it's footways where I've drawn a lot, tagged them in bulk and missed a few.

/Andreas

Skickat från min iPhone

> 30 jan. 2017 kl. 16:23 skrev Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>:
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>> Well, to be pedantically correct*, many untagged ways are members of
>> relations which have tags.
> 
> untagged ways as member of a relation were not included in the count. There are over 7M untagged ways that are part of a relation.
> 
> My guess is that people started to add in a feature but somehow forgot to tag them before uploading. JOSM gives a nice warning, which I've received. iD gives a warning as well but not as a new dialog box that you have to say yes go ahead and upload.
> 
> Clifford
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