<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Sorry JP, just talking from my experience in Ontario where they generally (at least in Southern Ontario) follow legal boundaries. </div><div><br></div><div>In the end, whoever does it will need to have knowledge of the area and how boundaries work in that province/locality, but boundaries are definitely important for geocoding and analysis and would remove the need for extremely redundant addr tags that are used for cities.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "J.P. Kirby" <webmaster@the506.com> </div><div>Date: 2017-03-07 1:21 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: James <james2432@gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries </div><div><br></div></div><div>And even then, not all CSDs are municipalities. In Nova Scotia for instance they have "county subdivisions" which have no legal standing at all and are just StatsCan creations.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'd suggest boundaries of actual municipalities are worthy of being added into OSM, but not all CSDs fit that bill.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 7, 2017, at 2:10 PM, James <<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com">james2432@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">CSDs are suppose to represent city/town limits (observable as usually there's a sign that says Welcome to X or Sorry to see you leave X), but they have been rounded off to look nice and may not reflect what it is in reality<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Stewart C. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss@gmail.com" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2017-03-07 10:36 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen wrote:<br>
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> … Any more thoughts?<br>
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If you're planning to import/add abstract statistical boundaries, rather<br>
than those defined by municipal boundaries, then I'd suggest that they<br>
don't belong in OSM.<br>
<br>
“Contributions to OpenStreetmap should be:<br>
1. Truthful - means that you cannot contribute something you have<br>
invented.<br>
2. Legal - means that you don't copy copyrighted data without<br>
permission.<br>
3. Verifiable - means that others can go there and see for<br>
themselves if your data is correct.<br>
4. Relevant - means that you have to use tags that make clear to<br>
others how to re-use the data<br>
<br>
When in doubt, also consider the "on the ground rule": map the world<br>
as it can be observed by someone physically there.”<br>
<br>
— How We Map <<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_We_Map" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/How_We_Map</a>><br>
<br>
Unless CSDs are physically observable, they are too abstract for OSM.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Stewart</font></span></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>