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

[Martijn van Exel]

When it comes to strange boundaries, I always like to refer to this situation: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/53137#map=15/51.4390/4.9341

Baarle-Hertog is a Belgian enclave (actually some 20 enclaves) in the Netherlands. The main town inside the county is functionally one town together with (Dutch) Baarle-Hertog. Before the Schengen treaty, this led to weird situations with lots of checkpoints and people paying property taxes in two countries.
Some more info here: https://brilliantmaps.com/baarle-hertogbaarle-nassau/
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  Martijn van Exel
  m at rtijn.org

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, at 08:41, Kerry Irons wrote:
> 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).
> 
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