[OSM-talk] Multiple nodes for one country

[Peter Körner]

Pieren schrieb:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Peter Körner<peter at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>> I noticed that for some countries there seems to be more than one node.
>> E.g. for Slovakia there are 5:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424313572
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/432425079
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424315420
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/243851695
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/424310798
>>
>> all at the same coordinate, most of them with the same names. Is this
>> intended or just a mistake? Would it be ok to build a bot that correct this?
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Read this: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/038931.html
> 
> It seems that one person is not able to revert all the crap he created.
> 
> Pieren

Ok, so here is an index of all duplicated countries:
http://toolserver.org/~mazder/duplicate-countries/

This is *not* the current state of osm, it's of 2009-07-05 which is the 
age of the postgis-database on cassini, the wikimedia osm-toolserver.

It would be easy to extend the script generating this list, so that it 
merges those nodes into a single one. I just want to ask if that would 
be ok to everybody. If there is no contradiction until Monday, 10th 
August, I'll do so.

Peter