[OSM-talk-ie] Tagging the Ireland/Northern Ireland border

[Paul Oldham]

On 17/04/17 12:43, Rory McCann wrote:

> Well it's not *wrong* if you tag the admin_boundary on the way, rather
> than the relation. I'd advise that you use the relation, rather than the
> way tags, so I'm not sure *why* you've done it. There are downsides to
> using the boundary tags,
>
> Be careful of reading too much into the wiki, the wiki is not
> definitive, and is often wrong and ignored. OSM is more anarchistic than
> a wiki allows. :)

You can't begin to imagine how frustrating I find that, but that was 
becoming horribly clear to me too.

> You mentioned on the changeset that you wanted to render country
> borders, but not in the sea. Many people don't like the maritime
> borders, so you're not alone in that. There are other solutions, such as
> re-ordering your rendering to draw sea on top of the land, or processing
> the lines in postgis to remove the boundaries which aren't on the land
> (ST_Intersection), or using Paul Norman's OSMBorder which tells you if
> it's maritime or not.

Thanks for the pointer: my better half tells me she has now succeeded in 
rendering the land border using OSMBorder.
-- 
Paul