[OSM-talk] national borders and josm plugin to selectively load gpx osm files for current view

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Sep 18 14:37:37 BST 2007


Christof Dallermassl wrote:

> Another problem is that a border usually is a border for two countries, 
> so the segments must be reused (is this the correct way to do this). How 
> will we do this in near future with relations and without segments?

The way it's been done for other boundaries (e.g. counties in England)
is to have keys like
  left:state=Western Australia  right:state=South Australia
Any reason why that shouldn't work for countries?

Cameron





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