[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Karl Newman]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > Do you have an example if such a jurisdictional anomoly? It would seem
> > to me that such a "servant with two masters" would have some rather
> > interesting problems.
>
> The examples that keep being quoted are of 'towns' that straddle state
> boundaries in the US, but other administrative anomalies are wards and
> parishes that do not match the higher level town and county boundaries in
> the
> UK. Some parts of 'Scotland' are classified as 'England' although THAT is
> an
> area where there would probably be local disagreement as to the actual
> state
> of play.
>
> --
> Lester Caine - G8HFL
>

The US example that probably gets quoted the most is Kansas City, Kansas and
it's neighbor across the river, Kansas City, Missouri, but those are
distinct cities with their own government, so that's not a valid example.

Karl
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