[Talk-us] silly borders

[Ted Mielczarek]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Dear Can-Americans,
>
> This is silly.  Four different lines for one border.
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.99906&lon=-95.15362&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>
> We're good neighbo(u)rs.  We should fix our fence.  Shouldn't each
> border be a single way, with a relation for each adjacent region?
>
> We should have a fence-mending party.
>

It is quite a mess. When I started the US state border import (which Adam
finished), I expended quite a bit of manual effort splitting borders to not
make them overlap. AFAIK, the complex multipolygon stuff didn't exist at
that point, or I probably would have tried to use it as well. I don't think
there were national borders in at that point, although I could be
misremembering. And then Ian tossed the county borders in wholesale (which
made me cry a little, I admit), and of course none of these datasets quite
line up. I've done some fixup locally where I cared about, but it surely
needs some love.

-Ted
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