[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Thomas Wood]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Shaun McDonald
>> <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
>>> On 1 Jun 2008, at 22:52, Cartinus wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>> Here's another. Worcester Park sits on the boundary of 3 English
>>> counties
>>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.38053&lon=-0.24354&zoom=15&layers=B00FF
>>>
>>
>> How's that relevant?
>> Is there a Worcester Park administrative area that you know of
>> straddling the boundaries?
>
> ACTUALLY it may well be that one authority is responsible for some aspects
> even where the area is in a different county. I pay RATES to Gloucestershire,
> but the Business premises are a Worcestershire postal address. Things are
> simply not black and white when it comes to abstract concepts like boundaries ;)
>

Yeah, but we can just ignore postal boundaries completely for now,
they're not administrative and don't mesh with the admin boundaries at
all in the UK.
Your example is reasonably common, my postal address and postcode is
Surrey, but I live in the London Borough of Sutton (so pay rates to
London etc).

Please lets not drag non-admin things into this, since it's
complicated enough as it is.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)