Hi Golferboy,

We are aware that there are third-party applications out there that don't work correctly. You need to understand that OpenStreetMap is a *massive* community with thousands of different tools and those tools need to follow the rules set out by OSM, not the other way around. Just imagine if I used a tool that had a bug and could only handle 5 nodes to define a fairway, so I started drawing rectangles and told everyone else to deal with my bug and that I'll eventually get around to cleaning it up. You shouldn't be saving these workaround drawings at all. 

For starters, you might want add your voice to the pull request (software fix) that was implemented 2 months ago but has yet to be incorporated and released. This will most likely fix your problem, but you need to get your tool's developer to give it some attention.

If you continue to create lollipops, the OSM data integrity group will probably start locking you out of your account until you can follow the same rules everyone else follows. None of us want that. We want to see great contributions continue to be added to the map. Everyone wins.
