[Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

[Richard Welty]

On 4/19/10 1:45 PM, Mike N. 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
>    
i don't know if settled is the word for it, the debate is still open, 
but currently the
josm validator reports duplicate nodes as errors, and provides a "fix" 
button that
merges them. it's not fully automated like a bot, but the result is 
effectively the same.

richard