[Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-04-19 10:45, Mike N. wrote:
>   I see that the separate VS tangled argument has been settled in the US by
>the "Duplicate Node attack bots", who have blindly merged all duplicate
>nodes.
>
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/38855677

Is this really happening? Can someone describe exactly what criteria are 
being used, and just how it was decided that this was a good idea? Seems 
like the wrong thing to do - city and county boundaries are often defined 
in law, or by survey, and do not necessarily keep up with changes in road 
alignment. I have resisted editing most of these boundaries until/unless I 
take the time to research the true definition of the boundary.

Not to mention that merging them will result in the inability to hide these 
boundaries. When doing a bunch of editing on a road that follows one, in 
the past, I've taken the time to verify that the boundary doesn't share any 
nodes with anything and then remove it from my local OSM file manually so I 
don't have to constantly deal with it. If it shares nodes with anything 
else, this is no longer possible.

Sounds a lot like the IMO ill-considered road name expansion that was 
apparently agreed upon by a small group of people without input from the 
majority of active mappers whose work has been damaged.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>