Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes still keeps them as separate ways just stacked on top of each other - which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Thanks Gary On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:32 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: > Gary wrote... > > "I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming > across > tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively > floating > above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary > instead > of the the road. The road or other way has been moved to create a > clear > path for the boundary and vice-a-versa. I presume the overlapping > sections of the boundary could be merged with the underlying way. Has > anybody had any experience doing this and what are the potential > pitfalls? > > Thanks > Gary" > > > Hi Gary, > > I'm a firm believer that virtual things like admin and landuse > boundaries should never be glued to roads. > Once I had to dissect about 5 layers of landuse park admin boundaries > in order to get to the road (I needed to add a bridge into the road). > It was a complete nightmare and took about an hour instead of about 1 > minute. > > If these boundaries can not be in their own seperate OSM layer then I > also would like to see them offset from the roads by a small margin. > > Cheers > Nick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au