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

[John Smith]

On 7 July 2010 05:51, Nakor <nakor.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)

The boundary might be similar to other features, but unless you like
reading a lot of legal documents there is no way to definitively know
if a boundary is the other feature.

It also makes things more difficult to edit in future if things
diverge, but the boundary doesn't move.