[OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/11/5 Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com>

> I think the reason for this is because we imported these borders a few
> years ago. Because the import process wasn't perfect, it created duplicate
> nodes wherever a border intersected a TIGER road even if there would
> normally be no reason for a node to exist on either one of the ways. These
> duplicate nodes then got merged together by a bot trying to clean up
> keepright "duplicate node" errors.



maybe you simply have had too many imports and bots and too few
contributors in the US in the past ;-)
A situation that seems to have changed a little bit in the last time, where
it seems (looking from far) there is now an active OSM community that is
growing...

cheers,
Martin
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