[OSM-talk] Not attaching polygons to roads

Dave F. davefox at madasafish.com
Wed Feb 26 11:31:43 UTC 2014


On 26/02/2014 11:16, Maarten Deen wrote:
> On 2014-02-26 11:42, Dave F. wrote:
>>
>> 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, 

Actually in the /middle/ of the road? I see no evidence of that. I'm not 
suggesting Google Maps are definitive, but they show it to one side.

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