There are many and I have tools that can pick them out in a particular area. However to use them I inspect the building visually before deleting one or the other. Sometimes if the mapper has less than ten edits to their name I may even skip adding a change set comment first.
However I do see many cases where the building or way appears to have been uploaded twice and these I think could be handled by a bot which would save my time and zap a substantial number. I don't think anyone could object to such an automated course of action whereas those that overlap really need visual inspection to see which should be deleted. Cheerio John On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 15:53 Isaac Boates <iboa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <jwhelan0...@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 >> -- >> Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >
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