v5 as per Marco's suggestion, it now merges points whose coordinates are equal rather than testing against a distance. misc minor tweaks. ---------- v4 based on r1044 ---------- v3 now requires the --remove-short-arcs option to enable this feature now deletes consecutive identical points ---------- v2 now reports OSM ids of merged/replaced nodes (at the cost of using more memory while the XML is being converted). only does this stuff if route option enabled. ---------- The attached patch is a first stab at a solution for this problem. Please test. It is implemented in an iterative fashion and it should terminate after a few passes. If 10 passes are executed it will give up, please report if you see it doing that. It would be nice if the diagnostics reported the OSM id of the nodes rather than their coordinates but I haven't worked out the best way of achieving that yet. Cheers, Mark