[OSM-talk] Admin borders/separate database

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi Richard,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:17:35AM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> there is an argument that some make that because
> borders are usually not easily verifiable on the ground,
> they don't belong in OSM at all. i'm somewhat sympathetic
> with the argument, but i also think that we have a bunch of
> data consumers that need/want borders.  many map users,
> not so concerned with philosophical purity, expect to see at
> least some of these borders in a map.

I oppose this idea.

When the Data is broken - Fix it.
When its to difficult to edit - Work on the editors
(Multiple layers for JOSM so boundarys dont interact with other data).

Moving the boundarys out of the OSM Dataset wont help anything. You only
move the problem to somewhere else.

And boundarys are very important for geocoding as its a necessary information
whether an address belongs to city a or city b.

Just as an anecdote

RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths
[ ... ]
   (6)  It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving
        the problem to a different part of the overall network
        architecture) than it is to solve it.

        (6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of
             indirection.
[ ... ]

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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