[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anthony-6 wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> Unless it connects to other things that do need to be edited, anyway
>> (boundaries which can't be obtained by surveying obviously don't
>> connect to things which can be surveyed).
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> I've found one big exception to this: landuse (and neighborhoods, which are
> generally sub-landuse polygons). But this assumes that you have accurate and
> precise boundaries; the TIGER ones are very often neither. If you do take
> the time (and have the luck) to determine and trace accurate boundaries,
> they will usually line up with lot lines (at least in those places where
> cities grow by piecemeal annexation).

Lot lines can be surveyed.

Actually, here in Florida anyway, I'm not sure of any boundary line
which can't be surveyed.  There's an iron rod in the ground in the
northeast corner of my property boundary.  To the extent the position
of that iron rod currently differs with the lat/lon in the county
records (even with the lat/lon in the deed to my property or in the
plat to my neighborhood), the legal position of the boundary is the
position of the iron rod, not the lat/lon.

(Note I say "currently".  Obviously if I dig up the iron rod and move
it the boundary doesn't change.  But to the extent the continent
shifts continental plate on which the iron rod and my entire property
lies, the lat/lon of the boundary *can* change.)