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

[Colin Smale]

A boundary couldn't be "the river" as a river has non-zero width. It
might be the "centre line", "deepest line", "fastest flowing bit" .....
but it cannot be "the river" without further qualification. 

On 2015-10-14 11:31, Frederik Ramm wrote: 

> 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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