<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Large portions of the US TIGER import ended up heavily segmented, so merge happens to be really important for some places.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Gerd Petermann <<a href="mailto:gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com" class="">gpetermann_muenchen@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">yes, I contacted some editors and typically got positive feedback,<br class="">so it is clear to me that nobody intended to create unusable data.<br class=""><br class="">I just don't understand why iD offers a method to combine elements<br class="">when this is such a tricky thing. Why would a "beginner" need that?<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>