[Talk-in] City boundaries

[Arun Ganesh]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Rémy Sanchez <remy.sanchez at activkonnect.com
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I just noticed that cities in India (and most things under admin_level 5)
> are actually nodes and not polygons/closed ways. Some googling around
> couldn't make sense out of this, so I'm sending a mail here to see if
> someone could explain this to me.
>
>
This is because there is no dataset available from where we can derive the
official urban body boundaries.

Is it this way on purpose? Am I somehow missing the polygons? If not, would
> it be okay if I created them?
>
> How do you plan to create them?


> Many thanks,
> Rémy Sanchez
>
>
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