<div dir="ltr">Agreed that does not fit the criteria for an administrative boundary. It might make sense though to keep it and rename to boundary=place, or something non-administrative, as it is something that people refer to and it has a precise geographic definition. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">- Elliott</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 1:13 PM Kevin Kenny <<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com">kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:08 PM Martijn van Exel <<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Or…alt_name=“Continuous United States”...</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Pedantry alert: I vaguely recall an English teacher telling me that the correct word was, 'coterminous'.</div><div><br></div><div>I have no qualms about nuking the relation as long as the larger U S of A relation isn't a superrelation. (Which it isn't.) Deleting it might slightly alleviate my grumbling at the slowness of the boundary checks on such a large beast. (I've been editing some minor civil division boundaries that conflate with the US-Canada border, and the "Download incomplete members" and "Validate" functions are both "push the button and go to refill the coffee.") Without the 'coterminous US' relation (or whatever it's called), I'd have one fewer huge relation to check for self-intersections and discontinuities.<br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div></div>
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