[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Cartinus]

On Sunday 01 June 2008 17:43:11 Karl Newman wrote:
> > The examples that keep being quoted are of 'towns' that straddle state
> > boundaries in the US

I don't know any examples of "towns" straddling state boundaries, but "towns" 
straddling county boundaries are common enough to break the model.

Here is one example of a city that is "part of" three counties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%2C_Colorado

The authority of the municipalities is granted by the states, not by the 
counties.
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For another less obvious example closer to Martijn van Oosterhout:
A Dutch "waterschap" is an administrative level that resorts directly below 
the national government. Several of them straddle provincial boundaries. In 
the Netherlands this problem is solved on most maps by just ignoring 
the "waterschap" boundaries, because most people ignore the "waterschappen" 
anyway. There is however no reason not to put them in the openstreetmap 
database (if we can get the data).

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus