With the influx of new mappers in the last few days, I've notices a number of untagged ways and footpaths not connect to nearby streets in their first edits. Some background. I am attempting to welcome new mappers in my state. Using new user data from the IRC #som-bot channel with their first edits in my state, I review the edit for quality and send them a welcome message and sometimes a changeset comment as well.
Thanks to Bryan Housel for implement a fix [1] for unconnected ways in iD. JOSM already checks for unconnected ways. Currently there are 3,587,257,541 nodes and 289,561 ways (not part of a relation.) I believe having both iD and JOSM prevent uploading of untagged ways and nodes would be a positive step to improve quality. JOSM has by far the largest number of untagged ways, 162,289. iD has 55,199. iD issue 3806 [2] requested that untagged ways would prevent the user from uploading a changeset. Bryan thought it is fine for user to add an untagged way for someone else to fix. I see his point that they may get discouraged and not continue to contribute to OSM. I would be interested in hearing from you why we should ever allow untagged ways to be uploaded. Clifford [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3786 [2] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/3806 [3] http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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