[OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

[Philip Barnes]

Inthe UK the boundaries were there long before road maintenance was thought of.

A couple of real life examples
http://osm.org/go/eu5Dsjb0--?layers =N
The border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire has been split to either side of Watling Street to solve the problem of maintenance.

The boundary original used the Roman road to define the border between The Danelaw and Saxon Mercia.

http://osm.org/go/euehosUf--?layers=N
The English Welsh border runs along the centre of the main street. I assume shropshire and powis have an arrangement.

Phil (trigpoint)
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On 26/02/2014 10:42 Dave F. wrote:

On 26/02/2014 01:02, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if the editors wouldn't allow polygon to connect 
> to highways.
> The edges of some polygons are truly coincident with road centerlines. 
> For example, many municipal boundaries.
>


I'm not convinced this is usually true. It maybe UK specific, but 
municipal boundaries were more likely to originally be placed on 
physical boundaries to farms & estates such as walls, fences etc. before 
tracks/roads were developed. Roads subsequently evolved along those 
boundaries afterwards.


It would be pretty silly to have a municiple boundary splitting the 
centre of a road so different administrations were responsible for 
maintaining the left & the right.


Dave F.

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