[OSM-talk] Rutland boundary

[Ed Davies]

Matthew wrote:

> Which makes me remember a "think" I was having on borders a while back. Handling
> of borders seems to make sense with the idea of ways and meta-ways, rather than
> segments and ways. Then each shared border (i.e. Leicestershire-Rutland) is a
> way, and the Rutland border is the meta-way comprising all ways around the
> county.
> 
> In fact, you then end up with a way being defined as an ordered group of nodes,
> and a meta-way being defined as an (ordered?) group of ways.

"Meta" is a good prefix but I don't think it's applicable
here.  Perhaps "super-way" or something?  I'm thinking
hierarchies and superclasses and so on.

Ed.