[Talk-us] Combining State/County Borders & Physical Features?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 19:17:59 BST 2011


On 10/15/2011 1:57 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
> I too agree that the same Way should be used for waterway=river and
> boundary=administrative whenever the boundary is defined by the river.
>   That Way should also be added to a relation for the boundary.  If the
> river has changed course, but the boundary remains in the prior
> location, then the map should be updated at that point to make two
> separate Ways.

I only agree when the boundary is actually defined by the feature. The 
obvious counterexample is a road along a border. The border is either 
defined by location, and the road was built along the border for ease in 
acquiring land, or the border is actually defined by the road, but it's 
unlikely that even a very minor realignment of the road (e.g. smoothing 
a curve) will result in the border moving.



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