On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Toby Murray <toby.mur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having edited over a thousand of them, I would not be sad to see admin > boundaries removed from the general OSM database. I think Russ is on to > something with his "ClosedStreetMap" concept although that is some terrible > branding so we need another name :) But at the end of the day, we are > terrible at maintaining such boundaries and very good at breaking them in > OSM, mostly because they are usually hard/impossible to spot on the ground > and verify. So people see random lines going through the area they are > trying to map and either don't pay attention when they touch them or just > delete them outright. Essentially what we need is the concept of layers. If > all the admin/timezone boundaries were in their own "layer" and didn't > interact with roads, rivers, etc in OSM then they would be much easier to > keep up to date from external sources. Introducing layers, although difficult to implement, would certainly simplify editing. Moving admin boundaries and land use polygons to a layer(s) would simplify basic editing. No more connecting roads to boundaries and land use edges. Layers could even introduce the concept of limiting permissions to edit. -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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