[Talk-us] Admin borders in the US

[Richard Welty]

i originally brought this up here because i am dealing with border issues
in the US. however, this would need to be implemented world wide, i
think, so i'll broach the subject on talk for a more general discussion.

On 11/4/13 3:03 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
> IMHO we shouldn't and I don't believe it is necessary to, give up the
> principle of everybody can edit anything, even in the case of admin borders.
>
> On the one hand we have cases where the borders are estimates generated
> by mappers because there are no available and free sources, on the other
> hand we can react faster to changes than your typical government GIS
> agency (example: we have a largish number of municipality mergers each
> year here, 2012 around 40, we had merged boarder polygons available
> months before the official ones were available). As a consequence I
> think it would be best to have borders (and other similar objects) in a
> separate DB/layer/whatever (makes live simpler for nearly everybody and
> stops the typical accident from happening), but the data should still be
> edited by our standard tools (in other words the API should stay the
> same) and by anybody with a OSM account.
>
> Simon
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
>


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 946 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20131105/6e4690df/attachment.pgp>