[OSM-talk] Administrative boundaries along roads

[Anthony]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jeff Spirko <spirko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> Many of the administrative boundaries in my area follow roads (or vice
> versa).  (E.g. http://osm.org/go/Zcll6ubE?layers=B000TTF )  It seems
> like the TIGER import has a separate list of nodes for the two ways
> (one administrative and one road), but the nodes are at identical
> locations.  This makes Maplint and Potlatch complain about duplicated
> nodes, making it hard to distinguish real map lint from this type.
>
> It seems like the TIGER data for the administrative boundaries is
> pretty good, so I don't want to touch those nodes.
>
> 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.
>

How about 4: delete the TIGER imported administrative boundaries?

In my experience a) they're not very good, and b) we should be using
boundary relations anyway.
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