[OSM-talk] Area-type objects and ways along its boundaries

[Pieren]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's extremely common in the US that imported TIGER data will have a
> road in the old position, which happens to match a boundary (or
> parallel it, with TIGER having it erroneously on the road), or that
> TIGER will make the same mistaken assumption you are that the boundary
> is on the road, rather than where the dusty predecessor was 300 years
> ago. It is significantly easier to fix these errors when the
> boundaries are not improperly joined to roads.


So you ask people to not join the nodes just because you make the assumption
that this person is contributing in US and that a majority of US boundaries
have errors...
I could also say that if the boundary is really following the road, then
there is no harm to join the nodes.


> It's also easier then
> to download the boundaries in JOSM with a XAPI query and be able to
> fix them up without worrying about messing up highways.
>

Again, this is something you could recommend on the talk-us list, not as a
general statement worldwide.


> No - you'd have a boundary between the two river banks.
>
> Normally, you also have a way in the middle of the river which can be
reused as administrative boundary:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank

Pieren
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