[OSM-talk] Naga City in OSM Re: GML to OSM
Andy Allan
gravitystorm at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 11:15:37 BST 2008
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Hakan Tandogan <hakan at gurkensalat.com> wrote:
> I don't doubt your reasoning that borders would be far better than is_in,
> but sometimes you have to resort to "kludges" to get something off the
> ground *today*
Sure.
> instead of some at future date when we have perfect data
Who says it needs to be perfect? Boundaries could have
status=rough_and_ready so that you can say "this is more or less the
village for is_in types of things" without committing yourself to
finding out the actual legal boundaries. When someone has more
accurate data they can fix things up a bit - surely this is one of the
OSM principles?
By the time you've added more than three or four places in a village
to an is_in hierarchy you could have just drawn the rough area
instead, and it would be far more useful - the fifth, sixth and
fifty-seventh items in that rough area wouldn't need any is_in tags at
all.
Cheers,
Andy
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