[Talk-us] Delete "Contiguous United States"?

[Eric Patrick]

The Contiguous United States is only 48 states, not 800+.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:05 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today I happened upon a relation called "Contiguous United States"
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9331155) and tagged as an
> administrative boundary.
>
> I would recommend to delete this relation because:
>
> 1. There is no administrative entity called "Contiguous United States".
> The "Contiguous United States" has no legal persona and no government.
> It cannot therefore be an "administrative boundary".
>
> 2. As far as I know, the "Contiguous United States" is simply a group of
> states. As such, it does not have its own boundary. If, say, the
> maritime boundary of Florida were to change, then the "Contiguous United
> States" boundary would also change. Hence, if it *were* modeled in OSM,
> it should be modeled as group of states and not as an individual
> geometric form.
>
> 3. Like any of these giant multipolygon and boundary relations, it
> complicates editing - anyone splitting, say, a way on the US-Canadian
> border will not only have to upload new relation versions for the US,
> Canada, and the states/provinces involved, but also a new version of the
> 800+ member "Contiguous United States". That's why this relation is
> meanwhile at version 270 without a lot having *actually* changed.
>
> If it were my home turf I'd just go ahead and delete it but since it's
> not, I'll limit my actions to this post and leave any further actions or
> inactions to you.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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