[OSM-talk] Villain?

[Matthias Julius]

Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> writes:

> It's not so simple. This changeset:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4300452 made me a
> "villain" when I selectively undid a so-called hero's indiscriminate
> joining of highways to boundaries, power lines, and pipelines:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4175719 . Of course it
> was useless, since another "hero" later came along and screwed it up
> again: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4385668
>
> (Apparently I'm now a "hero" - maybe I should do another unjoining so
> I can be on both lists.)

It is probably good practice when disjoining two ways to move one node
off to the side a little bit in order to not create duplicate nodes.

Matthias