Sorry JP, just talking from my experience in Ontario where they generally (at
least in Southern Ontario) follow legal boundaries.
In the end, whoever does it will need to have knowledge of the area and how
boundaries work in that province/locality, but boundaries are definitely
important for geocoding and analysis and would remove the need for extremely
redundant addr tags that are used for cities.
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-------- Original message --------From: "J.P. Kirby" <webmas...@the506.com>
Date: 2017-03-07 1:21 PM (GMT-05:00) To: James <james2...@gmail.com> Cc:
Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca]
Municipal boundaries
And even then, not all CSDs are municipalities. In Nova Scotia for instance
they have "county subdivisions" which have no legal standing at all and are
just StatsCan creations.
I'd suggest boundaries of actual municipalities are worthy of being added into
OSM, but not all CSDs fit that bill.
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On Mar 7, 2017, at 2:10 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote:
CSDs are suppose to represent city/town limits (observable as usually there's a
sign that says Welcome to X or Sorry to see you leave X), but they have been
rounded off to look nice and may not reflect what it is in reality
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017-03-07 10:36 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen wrote:
>
> … Any more thoughts?
If you're planning to import/add abstract statistical boundaries, rather
than those defined by municipal boundaries, then I'd suggest that they
don't belong in OSM.
“Contributions to OpenStreetmap should be:
1. Truthful - means that you cannot contribute something you have
invented.
2. Legal - means that you don't copy copyrighted data without
permission.
3. Verifiable - means that others can go there and see for
themselves if your data is correct.
4. Relevant - means that you have to use tags that make clear to
others how to re-use the data
When in doubt, also consider the "on the ground rule": map the world
as it can be observed by someone physically there.”
— How We Map <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_We_Map>
Unless CSDs are physically observable, they are too abstract for OSM.
Stewart
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