Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-13 Thread Warin
I have faced formal learning things by using tool A at first because it 'is easy', then the next year learning tool B because 'we' needed to do more complex things, then the next year learning tool C because 'we' needed to do the most complex things... on numerous subjects... taught in formal

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-13 Thread Paul Berry
relations sharing nodes >> (neighbouring authorities, counties, "historic counties" etc) and cleaning >> all this up - even if I was confident about where or whether the latest OS >> data has priority - would be quite tricky, not to say time consuming. >>

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-13 Thread Gareth L
If only it could “snap” to points, but not join, where the way is an administrative boundary. > On 13 Dec 2018, at 11:39, Andy G Wood wrote: > >> On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22:58 GMT Mark Goodge wrote: >>> On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote: >>> This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-13 Thread Andy G Wood
On Thursday, 13 December 2018 11:22:58 GMT Mark Goodge wrote: > On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote: > > This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this habit of some of sharing > > nodes causes me many problems. When I am updating roads and other > > features from fairly accurate gps surveys, I often

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-13 Thread Mark Goodge
On 12/12/2018 23:11, ael wrote: This is perhaps slightly off topic, but this habit of some of sharing nodes causes me many problems. When I am updating roads and other features from fairly accurate gps surveys, I often find the I have all these tangled boundaries about which I know little. It

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-12 Thread ael
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 06:10:24PM +, Rick Bowlby wrote: > Hello, I quite recently imported Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line data > (October 2018, OGL v3) for recently changed electoral wards in > Manchester (changeset > 65101926 ). I hope this >

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Boundary-Line - Manchester political wards and related boundaries, dealing with inconsistent data

2018-12-12 Thread Colin Smale
Hi Rick, As you can probably guess the whole of the country is divided into wards, which are subdivisions of council areas for electoral (and not administrative) purposes. The slivers are not correct of course - they are artefacts of the fact that the different boundaries have been created from