Hi,
Jonas Stein wrote:
In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint
empty nodes in the map to mark things like
"road is not mapped, but continues here"
I do this occasionally, and I'm sure I haven't made this up but got the
practice from someone/somewhere else - when a way is drawn and you know
it goes on but haven't mapped it, you put three "dots", just as you do
in written language:
--------------- . . .
I'm not religious about it but I think it is pretty elegant because it
does not require language to explain it - or at least that's what I
thought until I heard from several people that they "delete empty nodes
on sight" without further thought.
I mean - an empty node somewhere in the middle of town which has sat
there for ages, ok, but if you saw something like the above, where the
three nodes clearly hint at a way continuation - would you really remove
them? I'd think that a bit careless.
In fact, I'm going to fix the JOSM validator to detect these cases and
not complain - it is too easy for people to thoughtlessly hit "fix
errors" and thus inadvertently remove information.
Bye
Frederik
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