[Talk-us] County borders auto-fixup?

[Theodore Book]

I think it would be a great help.  Go for it!

Russ Nelson wrote:
> Has anybody played with Cloudmade's routing system?  It can't route  
> across the St. Lawrence County border on US-11.  Instead of sending  
> you the short way, it sends you up into Canada and around.  Very close  
> to the county border, there are two coincident nodes, one in St.  
> Lawrence County and the other in Franklin County.  I've fixed them by  
> hand, but there seems to be some amount of latency before the  
> Cloudmade data gets refreshed / rebuilt.
> 
> My question is: oughtn't we be able to automagically merge two  
> coincident nodes which are connected to two ways with the same road  
> name on them?
> 
> I can think of examples where that might not be perfect.  But I'd be  
> happier if the data was much less imperfect.
> 
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