the decision has yet to be passed before the parliaments of both countries. Don't be impatient .... Le 8 nov. 2013 19:36, "André Pirard" <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On 2013-11-07 17:41, Kurt Roeckx wrote : > > But it's not only rivers. Roads are often also the border and > might later be widened, straighten out and so on. > > You can do 2 things when currently mapping them and you don't have > official coordinates: > - Re-use the existing nodes, nodes end up in 2 ways > - Use other points for them, they don't share nodes > > In the first case you of course need to be careful when moving > such a node. But we might not know better where the border really > is so it's often easier to map re-use the nodes. > > ? > I remember having read on this list that Belgian boundary nodes must not > be shared with roads, landuse, etc. > But it's probably not written in the wiki. > I agree with this decision, the principal reason being that the very kind > guy who has mastered tagging roads is usually not aware of the intricacies > of boundaries and of the consequences of modifying or deleting one of their > nodes. He's probably using Potlatch which is not the ideal tool to warn > that something dangerous is being done and help doing it. > On the German border, there are no less than 6-8 ways and relations on the > same line. Someone managed to add a path and 3 landuse to that, if I recall > well, in which Osmose detected an error. I refused to touch at that stack. > A few days ago, I removed 2 pedestrian crossings that were standing alone > on the Brussels' boundary. > The most surprising is those ways that cross a boundary at a right angle > and share a node with it. > You can see here a gate to which the Belgium-Netherlands boundary is > attached <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2156401570>. The form > of the boundary seems to show that the gate was pulled towards Belgium to > extend the Dutch territory. And there was no La Libre article nor > Parliament session in this case ;-) > > Cheers, > > André. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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