[OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Oct 14 09:31:07 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 10/14/2015 10:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>     (If this happens - if the boundary is defined by the river or the
>     highway - then you still have various options of modeling this, for
>     example having two ways share the same nodes, 
> 
> wouldn't this kind of modelling be "wrong"? If the boundary IS the
> river, there shouldn't be 2 different objects there, should they?

Academic detail. "Is" the boundary the river, or is the boundary a thing
its own right, the geometry of which is described by the river? I think
you can argue either way.

Bye
Frederik

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