[OSM-talk] Duplicate Buildings

[Isaac Boates]

It might be better to check for building features which have a very large
percentage of their area overlapping with another, rather than an exact
duplicate, just in case there are a few kicking around that are identical
except for one vertex

Isaac

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 7:05 PM John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Occasionally I come across a building that has been mapped twice.   A
> number of them look as if they have been uploaded twice.
>
> Could some nice bot expert build one to run through the map and delete any
> ways that are an exact duplicate even as far as the tags are concerned?
>
> The problem comes when doing population counts etc that rely on the number
> of buildings in a given area.  A duplicated building means the wrong number
> of vaccines etc get delivered to the area besides cluttering up the map.
>
> Thanks John
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