[talk-au] Victorian Coastline

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ian Sergeant <inas66+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having a separate layer may be appropriate for data we are considering
> importing to OSM that will never need to be user modified.  Data in
> this category is better combined with OSM as a post-processing step.
> I don't believe it was ever the intention for the ABS import to fall
> into this category.

Well said.

> Option 1 as I've said in the previous emails, is without precedent in
> cartography, is ugly, and is likely a misrepresentation of the actual
> admin boundary for no reason I can see other than to preserve a third
> party data source.

Agreed.

> Options 4 and 5 just entirely misrepresent the boundary.

My thought was that from a cartography perspective it might look
better. For example, Melway renders administrative boundaries on one
side or other of roads and rivers. (Although, come to think of it,
they may be indicating who owns the road or river...)

> Options 2 and 3 are the only ones that make sense by my reasoning.

Cool. Now, who would like to offer opinions on the choice of which?

Steve