If only it could “snap” to points, but not join, where the way is an 
administrative boundary.

> On 13 Dec 2018, at 11:39, Andy G Wood <a...@bas.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22:58 GMT Mark Goodge wrote:
>>> On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote:
>>> This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this habit of some of sharing
>>> nodes causes me many problems. When I am updating roads and other
>>> features from fairly accurate gps surveys, I often find the I have all
>>> these tangled boundaries about which I know little. It is a huge pain
>>> to duplicate nodes to separate ways before I can adjust just the feature
>>> that I have surveyed. I confess that my patience often runs out, and I
>>> just drag the other stuff along with my updates, thinking that the
>>> mappers who shared the nodes in the first place get what they deserve
>>> 
>>> :-).
>> 
>> I agree. [...]
> 
> I also wholeheartedly agree.
> However I think this problem is not helped by the fact that the iD editor, by 
> default, will snap to nearest points.  You may be able to change this (?), 
> but 
> I have kept with the defaults, so this will be a "feature" that many mappers 
> just go with as the accepted norm.
> 
> Andy.
> 
> 
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