[josm-dev] Auto-Merge for nodes?

[Matthias Julius]

"Dermot McNally" <dermotm at gmail.com> writes:

> That could cause trouble in certain (real) circumstances. I've noticed
> that many of the Irish place nodes I imported from the GNS data file
> have landed at the identical location of another (possibly due to an
> unfortunately coarse granularity in the source data). Obviously the
> correct solution to this is to move the two apart, but to do that in a
> useful way needs somebody who has surveyed the area or is able by some
> other means to arbitrate on the matter. In the meantime, you'll end up
> with nasty attribute conflicts if you go through with what you
> suggest.

I guess we should only automatically merge nodes if they have the same
tags or one of them has no tag at all.

Matthias