[Osmf-talk] Worldwide electoral boundaries

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 23.08.2018 um 16:55 schrieb Jaak Laineste:
> OSM itself is not really the best source for such data - it may happen to have the boundary geometries for some countries, but you never know if they are complete, up-to-date, geometrically valid, has anyone accidentally broken something few days ago etc. You may try to extract the current data, but very probably you need to do a lot of checkups and unification to have really globally coherent view. Someone may have done all this already though.

In addition to that, electoral boundaries violate the On-the-ground rule
[1]. Administrative boundaries are one of the few exceptions from that
rule because they are very important. Mapping them is disputed, many of
them get deleted intentionally.

Best regards

Michael


[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability

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