[OSM-talk] bulk merge of duplicate points

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 28 April 2010 18:33, Vincent Pottier <vpottier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> we have a situation as part of the LINZ import where some nodes need
> >> to be merged - specifically cattle stops, gates, etc. with roads.
> >> there are lots of these, so we would like to do it programmatically.
> >>
> >> is there a tool to do this en masse? either a josm plugin
> >
> > The validator plugin...
>
> can this be made to run in a bulk fashion? i was under the impression
> after running the check, it required each set of duplicate nodes to be
> accepted for merging. we will potentially have tens of thousands of
> duplicates, so this isn't really on
>

How were you planning on automatically handling the merge? How are you going
to handle the case where two things are actually occupying the exact same
location but don't belong on the same node?
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