[OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

[Mike N.]

> What's the best thing to do with this situation:
> 1.  Leave it as-is.
> 2.  Combine the nodes so they're not duplicated.  (Do bots sometimes
> do this?  How would a person do it in Potlatch?)
> 3.  Offset the nodes of the road so it follows the same line but no
> longer forms map lint.

  Since it is difficult to impossible for a map survey to determine where 
the admin boundary lies, it should not be touched.

  I like option 1.  This results in needing lots of additional time when 
joining other roads or driveways to the road under the admin boundary.   It 
would be nice if editors offered the option to put admin boundaries on a 
separate layer.   But I'm sure that would be complicated by cases where 
roads have already been joined to admin boundaries (accidentally or on 
purpose).  Certainly the validator shouldn't complain about duplicate nodes 
for that case.

  The problem with option 2 is that it becomes even more difficult to edit 
the road for changes later on.

  Option 3 seems to be unnecessary mangling of correct map data for the 
road.