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

Nakor nakor.osm at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 20:51:37 BST 2010


  On 7/6/2010 11:18 AM, Pieren wrote:
>
>
> Again, this depends on the region you are contributing. In my region, 
> most of the municipality borders are in fact glued to the middle of 
> features like roads, tracks or rivers. Those features can be added in 
> OSM from different sources (imagery, GPS, land registry). So adjusting 
> the border with a more accurate source requires to adjust two ways and 
> many duplicated nodes when it is far easier if the nodes are shared. 
> This is IMHO also a good reason to glue the boundary with the feature.
>
> Pieren

If the river/road/... is the actual boundary, shouldn't the same way be 
used for both instead of having duplicate ways? I've seen this done in 
some places (Ohio IIRC)

  Thanks,

N.




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