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

[Elliott Plack]

Agreed that does not fit the criteria for an administrative boundary. It
might make sense though to keep it and rename to boundary=place, or
something non-administrative, as it is something that people refer to and
it has a precise geographic definition.
- Elliott


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 1:13 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:08 PM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>
>> Or…alt_name=“Continuous United States”...
>>
>
>  Pedantry alert: I vaguely recall an English teacher telling me that the
> correct word was, 'coterminous'.
>
> I have no qualms about nuking the relation as long as the larger U S of A
> relation isn't a superrelation.  (Which it isn't.) Deleting it might
> slightly alleviate my grumbling at the slowness of the boundary checks on
> such a large beast. (I've been editing some minor civil division boundaries
> that conflate with the US-Canada border, and the "Download incomplete
> members" and "Validate" functions are both "push the button and go to
> refill the coffee.")  Without the 'coterminous US' relation (or whatever
> it's called), I'd have one fewer huge relation to check for
> self-intersections and discontinuities.
>
> --
> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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