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Comment from BushmanK on 22 February 2017 at 04:56

It could be more effective to use Notes feature https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes than just list these locations here. Notes are not for personal ToDo lists, but other local mappers could help you to fix these locations.

Comment from sinclarius on 22 February 2017 at 12:42

Thanks, BushmanK. I’ll move this info into a note.

Comment from BushmanK on 22 February 2017 at 15:53

I’m talking about a single note for each object, not a single note for all of them together. I think you’ve missed a point of notes feature.

Comment from sinclarius on 22 February 2017 at 16:49

There were so many points overlapped at exactly the same location that they were hidden by default in the iD editor. Many of them are duplicates, misspellings, or locations which are no longer extant. It seemed counter-productive to manually add 132 additional notes–as would be the case with a note for each location. Is there a standard procedure for dealing with large sets of incorrect individual features?

Comment from BushmanK on 22 February 2017 at 17:02

One note per location (not per object) is, obviously, okay. No, there is no standard procedure. You can:

  • Leave a Note near that object
  • Just edit it once you found it (especially if it’s something non-existent - you can just delete it)
  • Add “fixme” tag with a value that briefly says “misplaced”

In the first and the last cases, other mappers will see a note or a highlighted “fixme” feature (in JOSM editor, not in iD) and would be able to participate in fixing these errors.

Comment from sinclarius on 22 February 2017 at 17:08

Cool, thanks for your help! I’ll be sure to do this going forward.

Comment from BushmanK on 22 February 2017 at 17:19

You are welcome.

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