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<p>Oh, that makes sense - thanks for the explanation. So the idea is to never let known issues into the main dataset in the first place.</p>
<p>Today I found the Conflation plugin for JOSM - I think this will achieve the above goal by providing tools to automatically merge address points with existing data in a clean way. Wiki update to come soon - I'll let this list know when I've got a revised plan.</p>
<p>And thanks to all for your patience, understanding, and expertise!</p>
<p>Jacob</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2022-10-06 19:57, Mike Thompson wrote:</p>
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<div class="v1gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:34 PM Jacob via Imports <<a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" rel="noreferrer">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p>Greg, regarding temporary duplication - Is your concern that the project will be abandoned midway through, leaving unreviewed data? Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but deduplication could conceivably be done by hand in JOSM before the upload occurs.</p>
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<div>While it certainly is a concern that the project might be abandoned, the concern goes beyond that. The data in OSM is "live", anyone can grab a copy at any time. Someone could grab a copy while the duplicates exist (even if they only exist for a short time), and they will probably not be aware of your project, and thus unbeknownst to them, they will have bad (duplicate) data. Further, they may not have plans to update that data frequently, or ever.</div>
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