Bristol ("City and County") has an interesting boundary - it follows the
bank of the River Avon out to the Severn estuary, then takes a large strip
out of the Bristol Channel down to a pair of islands beyond Cardiff and
Weston-s-M.Seems that the water off the shore of a fair bit of North Somerset belongs to Bristol. A BBC news article about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm I traced the boundary from NPE some time ago based on this, but I notice that since then someone has redone the Bristol boundary and has removed the relevant ways, chopping back the water boundary to the end of the Avon. Paul (southglos) -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:55 +0100 From: Chris Hill <chillly...@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts To: Talk GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Message-ID: <4a3f8b13.20...@yahoo.co.uk> I'm interested the relations of the boundaries for counties. I notice that some counties (and recently English Regions) include the way for the coastline (natural=coastline), and some coastal counties do not. I think that coastal counties would benefit from a way to close the boundary, but does it make sense to use the coastline? The coastline way probably indicates cliffs or a sea wall, yet there is often some beach or tidal flats beyond this on the seaward side. I understand that councils are responsible for the beach so the county could be said to extend beyond what we currently mark as the coastline. Does anyone know where council boundaries actually end with respect to the sea and coastline? Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
