[Talk-us] Gluing boundaries to roads (was Talk-us Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1)

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Nakor <nakor.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2010-06-01 06:00, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote:
>>> I don't think I have encountered a situation where an administrative
>>> boundary at the city level of higher follows a road (i.e. if the road
>>> changes alignment, the boundary changes alignment).
>>>
> Interesting. I worked on Michigan county boundaries and a lot of them
> are coincident with roads. I do not know if the boundary is defined by
> the road, or the road was built on the boundary, or the survey guys
> choose to make both coincident. Sometimes you will even see those
> boundaries (cities/townships for sure, counties to be verified) follow
> highway ramps.

It is a big world.

This is a three minute video on, mostly, maps and addresses.  Probably
applies to boundaries too.
http://sivers.org/jaddr