[OSM-talk] Boundary editing (was Zero tolerance on imports)

[Toby Murray]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Perhaps the answer is to remove some of the spurious nodes which were
> automatically added, when they are at the intersection of two straight lines
> (in other words, when removing the node would not change the path of any ways
> that currently include it).
>
> Certainly having duplicate nodes on top of each other is asking for trouble.
> If there's no need for a node to be there, better not to have it.

Yes. I finally got fed up with all the problems in Kansas City and did
this last night. Got rid of about 1,300 nodes.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7470442

Not sure if there would be a good/accurate way of doing it with a bot.
I used a couple of filters in JOSM to help me out.  Nothing bulk about
it :)

Toby