[Talk-us] Boundary Relation and Tagging

[Mike Thompson]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, one relation is type=multipolygon, and the
other type=boundary.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/4/2011 7:06 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Here is another, somewhat related, question.  Fort Collins CO is
>> represented by two separate relations: 112524 and 253754, neither of
>> which matches the 2008 TIGER data that they claim to be derived from,
>> although 253754 is a much closer match.  What is going on here?  There
>> is only one "Fort Collins, CO" and in my mind it should only be
>> represented by one relation in the data.
>
> The TIGER boundary data is a huge mess, and is very rarely precise. We
> probably would have been better off not importing it. As for the two
> relations, it seems that when there are inner ways there will be one
> relation with no tags and outer and inner roles, and another with all the
> ways but no roles. This may be a remnant of the old days before multipolygon
> support was good.
>
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