[OSM-talk] Identical Duplicate buildings

[Stephan Knauss]

On 28.01.2021 00:24, john whelan wrote:
> The thing that mystifies me is where the second buildings are coming 
> from.  Once iD has put them up to the database then they should no 
> longer be tagged as uploadable unless it is something really stupid like 
> close iD down before it confirms the edits have been uploaded.  On that 
> case iD will think they still need to go and next time it does an upload 
> it will upload them again.

I think we spotted a bug in iD here. I recently fixed a lower two-digit 
number of duplicates which fit well into this pattern.
All duplicate the exact same geometry that the same user had uploaded a 
bit earlier. Just upload message did differ and on second upload 
additional objects had been touched.

Maybe some hickup during upload tricks iD into thinking they hadn't been 
uploaded yet.

I would generally agree that HOT edits are quite frequently of not so 
great quality, but this time it seems to more of an editor problem than 
HOT process.

Stephan