[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

[Gary Gallagher]

Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem
unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into
a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said
Nick merging nodes still keeps them as separate ways just stacked on top
of each other - which is what I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks

      Gary



On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:32 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote:
> Gary wrote...
>  
> "I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming
> across
> tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively
> floating
> above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary
> instead
> of the the road. The road or other way has been moved to create a
> clear
> path for the boundary and vice-a-versa. I presume the overlapping
> sections of the boundary could be merged with the underlying way. Has
> anybody had any experience doing this and what are the potential
> pitfalls?
> 
> Thanks
>        Gary"
>  
>  
> Hi Gary,
>  
> I'm a firm believer that virtual things like admin and landuse
> boundaries should never be glued to roads.
> Once I had to dissect about 5 layers of landuse park admin boundaries
> in order to get to the road (I needed to add a bridge into the road).
> It was a complete nightmare and took about an hour instead of about 1
> minute.
>  
> If these boundaries can not be in their own seperate OSM layer then I
> also would like to see them offset from the roads by a small margin.
>  
> Cheers
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
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