OpenStreetMap
My goals are to update and correct the map of the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town which is a fairly high density tourist area.
Just around my own small suburb I have already done about 80 changes so this will be a long term project!
A questions:-
-I have found and removed about 10 "blank" nodes, is that OK?
Discussion
Comment from malenki on 4 February 2012 at 11:35
Hi Corr,
welcome to OSM! :)
Be happy you have to do a lot. I worked two years on "my" 10k-inhabitants-town. Now it is mostly complete (except of addresses) and I can't watch anymore satisfying big progresses on the map.
Maybe you should make some screenshots or export your town so you can compare and enjoy.
Nice to see you entering verbose comments to the changeset and being sensible about touching others ppl data.
For the removing blank nodes (though I haven't found them with a quick view at your edits) I guess it should be alright.
In case I find several created by the same user I try to contact and tell him about. Maybe he lost valuable data he tried to put into OSM and is thankful of getting reported.
Or (that happens too) if someone doesn't care about some dozen abandoned nodes he should learn that others see them, too and clean them up himself.
If you have questions I'd recommend you to the Mailing Lists, the IRC, the forums and the other places crwoded by OSMians:
osm.wiki/Contact
happy mapping!
malenki
Comment from Vclaw on 4 February 2012 at 13:25
Yes, nodes which are not part of any ways or relations and which don't have any tags are an error. See osm.wiki/Untagged_unconnected_node
It is worth checking how old they are - if they only a few hours or days old, they might be from some sort of ongoing upload or import. But if they are much older, they are probably just a mistake, so best to delete them.