On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 14:05, OSM via Talk-au
wrote:
> Since the coastline tag is also supposed to represent the high water mark
> then I would say that they should be snapped together (since they then
> represent the same feature - that is, the high water mark). This would mean
> that the bounda
I looked at the separation of park boundaries and coastlines down in
Wilson's Prom a while ago and asked the #oceania discord at the time but
never ended up changing anything. If you look at the legal definition of
many national parks, their boundaries are defined by the high water
mark. Since
Slightly different issue… but the accuracy of governmental admin boundaries can
vary a lot depending where you are in Aus. In regional NSW, allotment
boundaries (and associated park, state forest and local gov boundaries) as
shown on the NSW gov base map (and as often used in OSM) are often inac
Personally I'd prefer to snap them, it makes it easier for us to maintain,
better for data consumers, and overall cleaner data.
I speculate these departmental GIS teams are creating the boundaries from
their own coastline datasets anyway, so why not just have them match OSM's
coastline?
I think i
Hi,
I would advise caution with this.
Government bodies will typically hold their own GIS data for park
boundaries or administrative boundaries, and the GIS data they have will
never fully align with the coastline.
However, it is not our job to be an agent for publishing government
data. We
Warin's proposal, that natural features be separated from administrative
boundaries, is strongly supported. Boundaries are often near natural features
but they rarely align precisely. Further, natural features such as coastline
and waterways can change surprisingly quickly while administrative b
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