[Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX

[Kerry Irons]

There are some "famous" court cases where it needed to be determined where someone lived.  First the courts decided that the bedroom would determine which jurisdiction applied, and then it came down to where the bed was in the bedroom, and then finally where the person's head was when they slept.  Indeed, boundaries do go through buildings.


Kerry Irons

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> 
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:02 AM
To: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] admin_level=8 boundaries in Parker County, TX


Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> I've recently traced a little bit of stuff in Annetta, TX. The area I 
> looked at had a lot of potential for someone interested in mapping 
> from aerial imagery (houses, tracks, driveways, parking missing; some 
> driveways tagged as highway=residential etc.) and I did what I could 
> in the small area I worked on, but there was one thing I didn't dare 
> touch and that's admin boundaries. The ones I encountered often cut 
> straight through residential buildings and I thought that can't be 
> right, but I know too little about boundaries in the US to fix any of 
> it. I am specifically talking of

Not commenting on that boundary (which others say needs help), but the logic

  admin-8 bounadry goes through houses
    -->
  boundary must be wrong

is incorrect in the US.  Around me, there are multiple houses where the boundary line indeed goes through them (where I've seen the boundary markers, seen the houses, and talked to the occupants who pay taxes to two towns).