[Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there adefinitive source?

Steve Doerr steve.doerr at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Sep 7 22:51:53 BST 2010


From: Ed Loach 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:46 PM
To: 'Steve Doerr' ; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org 
Subject: RE: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there adefinitive source?


Steve wrote:

 

>> I think OS OpenData has a boundary data set. It would seem to

>> be a prime

>> candidate for a bulk import.

 

>No, please, no.

 

> At least not without someone manually checking every parish boundary in case it is already in. The Norfolk ones are there 

> but missing the admin_level tag on the ways so appear at rather low zoom levels[1]; where I've started creating the 

> district boundary relations (South Norfolk so far) adding the admin_level to the ways as I go, the lines are starting to 

> disappear to only show at higher zooms (not helped by me using administrative_level=10 rather than admin_level=10 at 

> first 'cos it's been a while since I worked on boundaries).

 

No problem: once the bulk import has been done, a bulk delete of any boundaries not derived from OS Opendata is done, so there is no potential for conflict/duplication.

 

-- 

Steve
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