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

[Andrew Guertin]

On 10/14/2015 05:21 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> I've been guilty of mistakenly joining state boundaries to the Ohio River's
> thalweg in the past, and by now I've had to correct those boundaries on
> several occasions. It's unfortunate that few mappers are aware of these
> complexities. The full situation is spelled out in a wiki page:

I'd suggest also tagging the ways involved in these boundaries with
   note=<text explaining the law>
to provide another way for overzealous editors to catch themselves. 
Although given the effort involved I'd probably do this only on ways 
there's reason to edit anyway.

--Andrew