<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Can-Americans,<br>
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This is silly. Four different lines for one border.<br>
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF</a><br>
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We're good neighbo(u)rs. We should fix our fence. Shouldn't each<br>
border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?<br>
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We should have a fence-mending party.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It is quite a mess. When I started the US state border import (which Adam finished), I expended quite a bit of manual effort splitting borders to not make them overlap. AFAIK, the complex multipolygon stuff didn't exist at that point, or I probably would have tried to use it as well. I don't think there were national borders in at that point, although I could be misremembering. And then Ian tossed the county borders in wholesale (which made me cry a little, I admit), and of course none of these datasets quite line up. I've done some fixup locally where I cared about, but it surely needs some love.<br>
<br>-Ted<br><br>