[OSM-talk] correcting/helping inexperienced mappers

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 01:02:00 BST 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nope. We've been over this many times on the talk-us list, and there
> have been enough examples of boundaries not actually following
> highways, despite TIGER claiming they do, and highways being realigned
> but the boundaries not following, that it's become clear that
> boundaries and highways should not be joined. That's not even getting
> into cases where one or both is badly aligned, and they appear to
> cross when they really don't (and thus joining at the crossing makes
> that much more work for someone fixing one or both). I've even seen
> this with railroads, where TIGER disagreed with reality, and a
> mindless bot went and joined them at the supposed crossings.
>

I don't understand you. If they don't follow and don't cross, then you don't
have duplicate nodes anyway...

Pieren
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