[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

[John Smith]

On 19 June 2011 19:32, Mark Pulley <mrpulley at lizzy.com.au> wrote:
> Some of these boundaries have been edited to include highway=* and
> waterway=* tags (mainly in areas with (at the time) no good imagery). How
> easy is it to get a list of these ways? Now that better imagery is
> available, now would be a good time to move these tags onto new, more
> accurate ways, using imagery, prior to the boundaries disappearing (with the
> loss of other information e.g. names). (Even if the boundaries weren't
> disappearing, it would still be good to create new ways, as the boundaries
> often aren't accurate.)

Assuming that the source tag was left it would be very trivial, you
could use the XAPI to pull these.

However, it's my experience a lot of these ways have been realigned to
aerial imagery, which is what tends to break these boundaries so much.