[josm-dev] Ideas for avoiding false duplicates merged

[Blars Blarson]

In article <4C3F2116.1050900 at gmail.com> nakor.osm at gmail.com writes:
>Now and then some user use the JOSM validator plugin to blindly merge 
>duplicate nodes in good faith but leading to more problems than before 
>(i.e. linking a road to a waterway where a bridge should  actually be). 
>One of the idea I had is to refine the validator plugin to 
>sub-classified duplicates nodes in different categories:

This is good, however it should also avoid merging nodes from ways on
different layers.  (unless they terminate at the nodes)
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