Ian Dees writes:
I personally don't think borders that are controlled by others belong in OSM
but if others insist that the borders are there then I think they should at
least be represented with clean OSM data.
Yet Another reason to have http://www.closedstreetmap.org -- renderers
need
User ToeBee has, in several changesets in February, aligned state
borders to exact lat/long. The problem is that this is not how the
borders are defined; instead they are based on work that the 19th
century surveyors did with the tools they had. Two obvious examples follow:
On 3/25/2011 3:56 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705298412/Four-Corners-marker-212-miles-off-Too-late.html
Note the correction to this article:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705299160/Four-Corners-Monument-is-indeed-off-mark.html
I was a little hasty
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
User ToeBee has, in several changesets in February, aligned state borders to
exact lat/long. The problem is that this is not how the borders are defined;
instead they are based on work that the 19th century surveyors
it over ToeBee's objections.
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From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:nerou...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:56 AM
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Subject: [Talk-us] border screwup by ToeBee needs reverting
User ToeBee has, in several changesets in February
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
...
I'd say that reverting the border fix changeset would be wrong, given the
number of problems it fixed with the borders. I'd say it was definitely
wrong to attempt to revert it over ToeBee's objections.
+1
I would say
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better use of our time would be in creating boundary
relations to fix the duplicated county/state boundaries.
I would say it's more important to have the border in the right place
(at least such that all roads in one state are on the
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better use of our time would be in creating boundary
relations to fix the duplicated county/state boundaries.
I would say it's more important to have the
On 3/25/2011 8:37 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better use of our time would be in creating
boundary
relations to fix
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
On 3/25/2011 8:37 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/25/2011 7:49 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
I would say that a better
* Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com [2011-03-25 08:04 -0400]:
I would say it's more important to have the border in the right
place (at least such that all roads in one state are on the correct
side).
So either fix it or *politely* ask the person who made the change to fix
the alignment.
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