These examples are outdated, please refer to a complete page about validator mistakes: Help/Preferences/Validator

Examples howto use validator

To validate the map you can either select individual objects by hitting the S key and clicking on the object or for multiple objects hold down the Shift key while clicking on objects. Or optionally you could enter Ctrl-A to select all objects. As ways are selected they will turn yellow.

Crossing barriers / boundaries / ways

When you expand and highlight the crossing way nodes the crossing ways should turn into a fat yellow line.
You can now zoom in to the offending area.

• You now need to get out of this modes.
• Hit the S key for select and click on something else to "reset the maps"
• Then zoom in until the yellow highlighting disappears.
• Hit N for new node and click on the intersection to add a new node.

A yellow dot (new node) should appear to join the ways.

When your done, don't forget to hit the Z key to get out of adding node mode.

Untagged and unconnected nodes

These nodes will have a blue circle around them. When you select these nodes from the Validation Display window they will turn solid blue. You can either
Option 1: Click on Fix which will automatically delete the node
Option 2: Hit D for delete mode and then click on the node. Then click Z to enter Zoom mode

Warning If you forget to hit Z your in Delete Mode, anything you click on will be deleted

See also

• Validator dialog
• Validator preferences and description of validator tests
• MapCSSTagChecker - about the syntax of validator checks, which are based on MapCSS