[Talk-us] silly borders

[Bill Ricker]

>  We should fix our fence.

Ayuh. Good fences make good naaybahs. [1]

> Shouldn't each
> border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?

around whom does it go clockwise?

Shouldn't the entirety of a country's (state/province/county) be a
(multi)polygon for area?
Can that be emulated by relations, and would that be provided
abstraction or a pain in the punctuation for users of the data?

can the relation have a REVERSE option so that the entire outline can
be traced for a green's theorem planimeter area computation?

If there's an island between the lines, can it declare independence? [2]

> We should have a fence-mending party.

We want the fence nice and porous all summer  until after WorldCon Montreal. [3]

[1] http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html
[2] http://isbn.nu/9780448054476
[3] http://www.anticipationsf.ca/

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Bill
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