[Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

Ray Kiddy ray at ganymede.org
Sun Sep 6 01:05:31 UTC 2015


On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:40:57 -0400
Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

> On 9/4/15 5:09 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
> > So, there is nothing that a relation brings to the table that a way
> > does not? I mean, it is clear that for the purposes of drawing, they
> > are the same. But then are they really just the same?
> i don't know about the current style, but in the past there has been
> an issue
> where a way was contained in a relation, and both the way and the
> relation had the same admin boundary tagging. the stylesheet of 1-2
> years ago would draw the admin boundary twice.
> 
> i haven't checked to see if this problem has been fixed or  not. the
> correct answer is to only tag the relation and remove any duplicate
> tagging from the way, especially because the way may be in multiple
> relations and with different admin levels in the different relations.
> 
> richard
> 

Yes, that is what I would do. It would just be what would make sense.

thanx - ray



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