On 16 June 2010 19:17, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > Does that matter if the boundaries are essentially guesswork inventions > anyway?
If we used that logic we would only ever map from very hi-res very high accurate aerial imagery then because anything less is mostly guess work... > It sounds like these aren't any sort of officially defined areas, but more > the kind of fluid local names for approximate areas. Actually it's worst than that, at least here, because when you are near a suburb border different databases can place you in different suburbs. I think most databases are generated from extrapolations, but the original boundaries would have been drawn up on paper, and some times they do shift but older suburbs tend to be pretty static. Also suburb boundaries here sometimes have signs up on major roads when you move between them. That said, suburbs are somewhat different in Australia to similarly named places in the US, there is more of them and they cover smaller areas. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
