[josm-dev] Validator bug when fixing duplicate nodes

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>   there's a rather nasty validator bug that has caused some grief for
> people who mass-fixed "duplicate nodes" with it. The ticket has an .osm
> file attached that can be used to reproduce the problem:
>
> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1807
>
> If anyone has the time to investigate this, that would be highly
> appreciated. (I'm not too familiar with the workings of the validator,
> I'll do it if nobody else can but it would probably be easy for someone
> who already works with the validator source.)

I only read the bug till now, but the solution probably is to call the 
JOSM merge function instead of Validators own routine in case of duplicate 
nodes.

Ciao
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