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 <da...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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