[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 77, Issue 26

[Richard Welty]

On 1/10/11 12:59 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 11 January 2011 03:21, Richard Welty<rwelty at averillpark.net>  wrote:
>> umm, i just provided a concrete example why the adjective
>> "theoretical" was not correct in characterizing Nathan's
>> concern.
> I never said there were no exceptions, however they are just that,
> exceptions not the rule which is what Nathan seemed to be getting at.
>
umm, the original discussion was about automated consolidation of
nodes with the same coordinates, either by bots or by routing
algorithms. Nathan was pointing out cases where this type of
consolidation was flawed in that correct mapping required nodes
with the same coordinates.

you dismissed this as theoretical.

i pointed out that it is not.

now you're transforming this from "theoretical" to an exception,
which is a different argument.

>> i really don't see how you're getting from Point A to Point
>> B here.
> Based on comments you made in another thread where you were promoting
> mass changes rather than just tagging exceptions.
>
not knowing which thread you're referring to, i have no way to
respond to this.

richard