[OSM-dev] Turning boundaries to linestrings
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Tue Dec 13 12:33:29 UTC 2016
On Tuesday 13 December 2016, Paul Norman wrote:
>
> Feedback from anyone interested in using this output is welcome, as
> well as any additional information that should be added to the
> linestrings.
You have some conflicting goals here - you want to maintain the OSM
tagging information on the way level so you need to maintain the
individual ways - which however limits what you can do in terms of
rendering - dashing is not consistent for example where a boundary is
split and you have problems doing geometry processing (like the all
popular ST_Simplify()).
IMO a process that merges the ways where it is non-ambiguous would be
more useful. And most cases where tagging varies in an admin boundary
without there being a junction that is a tagging error.
The maritime attribute based on tagging is currently of very limited use
since it is not consistently applied. On admin_level 2 a better way
would be to classify this based on topology - i.e. all boundaries that
are only part of one admin_level 2 relation are maritime boundaries.
On the higher admin levels this is more complicated of course and not
easy to solve.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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