Mark Burton schreef:
The fact that other routing services choose to do that does not make me any more enthusiastic about the idea.
IMHO, if people want specific changes to their OSM data before rendering a map, it's pretty easy to do so. Merging different nodes on basis of some rule (the rule in this case being "coordinates are the same") could be one of these pre-processors. I agree that this should not be mkgmap's job. Another nice preprocessor I just made is (remove extra line feeds): sed 's/k="name" v="[^"]*\(straat\|plein\|hof\|dijk\|laan\|weg\|gracht\|vaart\| museum\|pad\|school\|college\|zicht\|groeve\|park\| Museum\| weide\|sluis\|singel\|haven\|sloot\|plantsoen\|kanaal\|kade\)"/k="name" v="Name Of Collegue\1"/' unpacked.osm > specialmap.osm This made a nice birthday map of the Netherlands; we had a good laugh over it. (Bonus is the fact that "card" and "map" are the same word in Dutch, so "birthday card" is the same as "birthday map" :) Replacing these words with their English (or other language) equivalent is left as an excercise to the reader. Also: if you can't find your way home afterwards, you'll have a great excuse. Best regards, Valentijn