[Talk-us] Adding a new node by merging borders of two other existing nodes?

[Eric Patrick]

Also, if we’re gonna add a “social media term”, let’s add “flyover states”
as well.

Eric

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 09:35 Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> Although it could be technically easy to do in this case by creating a
> relation referring to the 2 boundaries, there are many variations of
> regional reference names in the US.  Many of those do not match state
> boundaries and would therefore result in a maze of intertwined and
> overlapping regional polygons.   It is not a good fit for OSM.
>
> On 3/18/2022 8:32 AM, Reem Ali Suwaileh wrote:
> > The name "Carolinas" is commonly used to describe both North Carolina
> > and South Carolina. These states exist separately on OSM. I wanted to
> > add a new node for "Carolinas" as it's commonly used on social media
> > this way but wants to hear from you first?
> >
> > I want an easy way to create a node by merging existing North Carolina
> > and South Carolina borders. Is this possible? I need that because I work
> > on automating the extracting of locations names over social media posts
> > and wants to link those locations against OSM.
> >
>
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