Admin boundaries can also be seen, and surveyed, where the tarmac changes. Phil (trigpoint) --
Sent from my Nokia N9 On 05/11/2013 14:37 Christoph Hormann wrote: On Tuesday 05 November 2013, Jochen Topf wrote: > [...] And it is > totally unclear how things that are supposed to be changed together > (think borders following a river or road) are to be handled. And in principle the OSM data strctures are quite good for this, you can have a way with waterway=* that is part of a boundary relation. In reality borders are nearly always defined either through some real feature that is map-worthy in OSM on its own (most frequently rivers or watershed divides) or by straight lines/arcs between points with specified coordinates. The practical problem is that borders are mostly imported from external sources which do not contain the actual definition of the border but an approximation of varying accuracy. The only place where i have seen truely definition based borders in OSM are maritime boundaries like: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/48854191 -- Christoph Hormann http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/48854191 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/48854191
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