[Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 18:50:14 BST 2010


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> From an old message:
>
> > I take the point that 'road realignment' may
> > require the boundary also to move, but the word is MAY and so what ever
> > happens
> > to the road, the location of the boundary needs to be checked separately!
> > It is
> > quite surprising in the UK how many roads are being moved, but that does
> > not
> > also move the original boundary.
>
>  I see that the separate VS tangled argument has been settled in the US by
> the "Duplicate Node attack bots", who have blindly merged all duplicate
> nodes.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/38855677
>
>
When I imported GNIS last year, a fairly significant portion of the data
(2-5%) had POI with coordinates exactly the same as another POI (e.g. a post
office inside a town hall building). I wonder what these duplicate nod bots
are doing with those nodes...
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