[OSM-talk] Non-nesting administrative borders (Was: National borders in the British Islands)

Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Tue Jun 3 17:21:33 BST 2008


On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:42:22AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> > The 'nesting' rule does not exist. We have already had enough examples of
> > where boundaries form different 'sets' of areas so there is no way to insist
> > that the 'admin' boundaries are mutually exclusive :(
> 
> Do you have an example if such a jurisdictional anomoly?

  In Canada:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloydminster
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flin_Flon
  
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