[OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

[Maarten Deen]

On 2014-02-26 11:42, 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.

Like here [1]. The border is in the middle of the road, the roadlayout 
and signage is Dutch, but the sign on the building to the left is German 
(and is on German ground).
But the same is true for border rivers. Then there also has to be 
agreement in procedures.

[1] 
<https://maps.google.nl/?ll=50.860225,6.077156&spn=0.006014,0.032873&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=50.860226,6.077161&panoid=SQRceC4dd39DbQRqRCy1zg&cbp=11,195.8,,0,3.32>