Renaud MICHEL-2 wrote: > > Hello > Le dimanche 15 août 2010 à 23:42, Jonas Stein a écrit : >> Validators claim empty nodes are defective, but are they right? >> Is painting with empty nodes data that we want to have in the database? >> Are there any empty nodes that make sense, or is a empty always node >> nonsense? > > I'd say the validators are right, because a node that is neither part of a > way, nor part of a relation, and has no tags is simply useless: we have no > idea why it sits there. > > If you put a note as a reminder of something, then you should at least put > a > note tag on it. > Note that JOSM's handling of nodes with only note tags is suboptimal: it puts them under the same heading (but a different subheading) as ones with only created_by (the latter should be treated as truly untagged).
Renaud MICHEL-2 wrote: > > Maybe most of those empty nodes are remnants from some time ago, when some > editors would delete a way, but not the nodes it contained (I think there > used to be such a bug, even before I started contributing to OSM). > There's still such a bug: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2700 -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/RFC-what-are-empty-nodes-and-how-should-we-use-them-tp5426109p5426331.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
