The easiest way to find out is to ask him ;) Looking at his other recent edits, it looks like he is systematically going through and fixing the issues in OSM Inspectors Multipolygon view: http://goo.gl/aWpXQ - It still shows the error as i write this, but the view might have been updated with his edits by the time you click the link.
Another good tool to find problems is http://keepright.at/ /Jais On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/changeset/12742505<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12742505> > > I created a multi-polygon (1754193) with an outer, & a couple of inners to > represent a riverbank with an island (there are other members, but not > relevant to this enquiry). > > To the West of this is a closed way to represent the continuation of the > riverbank. This is contiguous with the multi-polygon where they shared a > couple of nodes so there were two way segments on top of each other. > > The latest editor has split both the closed way & outer polygon, deleted > one of the overlapping ways & added the remaining way to both the outer way > & a newly created multi-polygon (2338583) as a substitute for the closed > way. > > Why has the editor done this? Is there a new preferred reason for doing > this? To me it seems a pointless exercise that adds nothing but makes it > more confusing for any future editor, especially putting a previously > closed way into a multi-polygon. > > He's done this on numerous occasions around the South of the UK. He seems > to think that overlapping ways is bad but his edits appear a bit random - > notice he doesn't do a similar edit to the East of the multi-polygon. > > Cheers > Dave F, > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/tagging<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging> >
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