Wrongly use of height tag?

Tiroler · 2019-04-26T07:42:45.000Z

Hi,
I’m just verifying the height tag worldwide and I found unfortunately a lot of wrong entries. E.g. many user mixing elevation and height or they also enter m for meter. Is there a way to automatically correct the wrong entries? E.g. all entries about 850m are automatically wrong. Or for the inputfield of height should be a veryfication about the value size and type and the user must get a hint that this is not the elevation.

Thxs…

Tordanik · 2019-04-26T16:10:08.000Z

Our validators (both inside editors and standalone tools) could warn the user about implausible height values. Not sure if any of them already do, but it would seem like a good addition.

Automatic correction of already-uploaded data is more sensitive and there’s a community expectation of following a certain process with prior discussion etc., so I’d recommend talking to validator developers as a first step. You could submit a feature request for JOSM, for example!

By the way, note that including the unit with a height value (such as “height = 1.5 m”) is not wrong, and some mappers even consider it preferable.