[OSM-newbies] Ways and boundaries

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Tancredi Tincani wrote:
>Sent: 04 September 2008 5:16 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Ways and boundaries
>
>Since JOSM (and Potlatch) are fairly bad at dealing with shared ways
>(a way which is a river and the boundary to a county, for instance, to
>cite your example), I suggest the best thing to do is to draw them
>separately - put the county boundary right next to the river, but as a
>separate way.

There is no need to put them alongside each other. You can share the same
nodes for two separate ways. Very easy to do in JOSM.

Cheers

Andy

>
>Tancredi
>
>2008/9/4 Jonathan Harley <jon at parkplatz.net>:
>>
>> Hi. When a boundary such as a parish or county boundary, follows
>> a physical feature such as a road or river, should the shared
>> section be a single way - with a set of tags to indicate both
>> the boundary info and the way info? Or what?
>>
>> Thanks - Jonathan