[Talk-in] Telangana borders

[Arun Ganesh]

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> > From: Abhishek [mailto:cheerfulguy at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 9:20 AM
> > To: talk-in at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: [Talk-in] Telangana borders
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not sure if this has been discussed before (I'm an Indian OSM
> > contributor based in the US) -- but the thought occurred to me so I
> > thought I would reach out. On June 2, the state of Telangana will come
> > into existence -- do we have the capability to update OSM to reflect
> > the change?
>
> Yes - anyone who knows the boundaries of a new state and is comfortable
> editing boundary relations can do so.
>

Yup, I can volunteer to do it. It should be fairly straightforward, because
the boundary follows existing district boundaries from what I've seen. In
any case, does anyone know if there is an official reference map that we
can use to cross verify? In the meantime we have this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Telangana_locator_map.svg


>
> Of course boundary relations are one of the trickier aspects of the OSM
> data model.
>
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 Arun Ganesh
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