[OSM-talk] Editing problem?

[john whelan]

When you mix new users with iD and OSM all sorts of strange things happen.
For example there seems to be a large number of Zebra pedestrian crossings
in rural Africa so unfortunately I suspect its a finger problem.  iD does a
very good job of guiding people but its very difficult to make anything
idiot proof, they keep evolving and finding new ways to cause chaos.

I just correct the very obvious ones when I see them.  JOSM validation
crossing highways is good for spotting them by the way.

Cheerio John

On 18 June 2017 at 11:31, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> Is there something people can do too easily and inadvertently in iD which
> leads to a problem if they don't spot they've done it? Or maybe even a bug?
>
> In the last month I've found edits by two different accounts, both editing
> in iD, where a node has ended up merged with another node, or possibly a
> way re-connected to a different incorrect node, some hundreds of metres
> away (in both cases the original location ended up eastwards, but that's
> probably just coincidence). The visual result is a road or building ends up
> with a long narrow spike in it.
>
> In both cases, from the changeset comments, it doesn't look like either of
> them were even trying to edit the particular feature in question - they
> were doing something quite unrelated.
>
> What I'm wondering is if there is perhaps some gesture, like panning the
> map, which can end up dragging a node which dropped onto another node
> connects them. If you're rapidly panning perhaps you may not notice you
> picked up a node? Is this possible? Is there some other scenario that could
> lead to this accidentally? I can understand one mistake, but two so very
> similar accidents by different people looks suspicious.
>
> David
>
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