Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-04-25 Thread Paul Norman
, March 30, 2012 7:51 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alexander Roalter alexan...@roalter.it wrote: Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC

[Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. The Canada/US border here consists of the BC-WA border, BC-ID border, BC-MT border,

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. ... I am

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Alexander Roalter
Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways. The Canada/US border here consists of the

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Alexander Roalter alexan...@roalter.it wrote: Am 30.03.2012 11:17, schrieb Paul Norman: There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in OSM these are

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with conflicts is if someone is splitting ways that are members of the US border relation down in Arizona while you are doing the same up in Washington. But in general I don't think this will be a huge

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:21 AM To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with conflicts is if someone is splitting

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/30/2012 12:55 PM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Could this be mitigated somewhat by the use of super relations? IE on relation each for the US-Canada, US-Mexico, US-Pacific, US-Atlantic borders tied together with one super relation? Do any of the tools

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Minh Nguyen
Ngày 2012-03-30 9:55 AM, Paul Norman viết: From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:21 AM To: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border Could this be mitigated somewhat by the use of super relations? IE on relation each for the US

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:02 AM To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border On 3/30/2012 12:55 PM, Paul Norman wrote: From: Jeffrey Ollie [mailto:j...@ocjtech.us] Could

Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/30/2012 3:59 PM, Paul Norman wrote: Yikes, that's complicated. I'm not sure that hatching will help much with a situation like that in general - what if the boundary between two cities is like that? Both would be inside a boundary and have the same shading. It's much less likely that the