[Imports] Trails in National Forests of New Mexico USA

[Robin Paulson]

On 8 September 2010 16:25, Samat K Jain <lists at samat.org> wrote:
> The major problem: imported ways aren't connected to existing roads/ways. I'm
> fixing this manually. This breaks routing but for the purposes of visual use
> of the map it is adequate.

we had this problem with the linz import in nz.

solution was a script to merge nearby nodes:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Script_for_snapping_nodes_to_nearby_nodes

please heed the warnings!

it's sort of tested on the linz data, but may well break even that as
we advance out of the chatham islands into urban areas. i have no idea
what will happen with your data.

this may be useful also:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Script_for_reducing_the_precision_of_nodes

same warnings apply