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 boundaries change much less often.
On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, at 10:58 AM, Warin wrote: > Hi > > > Looks like some are setting natural features to government boundaries. > > > A recent case along the WA south coast has been going on for some years.. > > The coast line looks very confused and the National Park boundaries are > being changed to the coast line in reverse of what is stated on the > change sets... (bangs head on wall). > > > I was altered to it by OSMInspector identifying the National Park > boundary being broken by the 'adjustment' of the 'coastline' ... that > broke the National Park boundary... > > The National Park boundary looks, in some places, to be the low tide > mark and then in other places to be the hi tide mark, so it is not > consistent. > > > I do understand where the two (natural feature and government boundary) > coincide that it is easier to use the same way. But every now and then > someone moves it to conform to the latest imagery of the natural feature > .. thus moving the government boundary .. unintended but there we go. My > only solution si to have them as separate ways .. making it easier to > divorce the new nodes added for the new nature feature addition from the > old government boundary. > > > Any other ideas??? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
