[OSM-talk] open question about boundaries sharing nodes with ways or nodes
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Wed Oct 14 11:04:23 UTC 2015
On Wednesday 14 October 2015, Colin Smale wrote:
> Boundaries are often downloadable from authoritative sources. The
> downloadable data is however not always the legal definition of the
> boundary, but derived from that definition [...]
A large fraction of 'authorative' sources of boundary data have very
little to do with the legal/contractual definition of the boundary. I
would probably go as far as saying the most inaccurate boundaries in
OSM come from authorative sources.
>
> The boundary is where the government says it is...
Not in OSM - see the 'on the ground rule'. For OSM the boundary is what
locals treat as the boundary.
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Christoph Hormann
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