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

[Paul Oldham]

On 16/04/17 23:10, moltonel at gmail.com wrote:

> Using a phone, sorry for the short answer to a detailed mail.
>
> Puting boundary-related tags on the ways is redundant (duplicates the
> relation tags), risks getting out of sync with the relation, handles
> ways belonging to multiple boundaries (always the case for countey
> borders) badly, and can be confusing (josm boundary rendering of the way
> can mask other renderings). I often remove such tags from ways if I'm
> editing the ways.

Yes, sorry about that, I fear I may have trampled on your work there. I 
don't yet feel confident enough to reverse out my changesets, especially 
given the dire warnings in the Wiki, but if someone more skilled wants 
to do so then feel free.

> AFAIK we've got all of Ireland boundaries (over 60k of them) mapped as
> relations. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case worldwide, do you
> have counter-examples ? I suggest that you forget that mapping
> boundaries purely as ways is a thing, and that if do any data fixing,
> it's to add missing relations rather than tagging theirs ways.

Thanks. As you'll see from my other reply here we've switched to using a 
relation for rendering the border.
-- 
Paul