[talk-au] Victorian Coastline

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 4x4falcon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> Physical things can change (eg road or railway realignment), non physical
> don't necessarily change.  In the case of boundaries do we definitely know
> that when a road is realigned does the boundary change with it.  This has
> been discussed many times since the import of the ABS boundary data.

My guess would be that the boundaries generally do change, but I could
be totally wrong. And I think high quality traces are likely to be
more accurate than the ABS's data.

Anyway, we started this thread talking specifically about  coastlines.
In that case, the shire/council boundary is surely always the
coastline itself, and should be aligned. The question then is not of
the coastline moving, but our mapping of the coastline: the ABS
boundary should move with it.

> For editing (particularly for new users) it is easier to select which one to
> edit (particularly in potlatch) and not try to select the correct one using
> the appropriate keyboard shortcut which is not immediately apparent.

Me, I think ease of editing should rate pretty low compared to quality
of rendering or correctness. Incidentally, I have just checked in a
new feature to Potlatch which will make it very easy to create
colinear ways. Not sure when/if it will appear in the public version.

Steve