And sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't. For boundaries between higher-level administrations with highways responsibility, it matters. District Councils and Civil Parishes (in the UK) for example don't usually have highways responsiblities, so won't matter *in this case* whether the boundary is the centre line or an "edge" or some random wiggle between two points. A County boundary on the other hand would be significant.
Colin On 2014-02-27 09:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote: > >> On 26/02/2014 01:02, Mike Thompson wrote It would be pretty silly to have a >> municiple boundary splitting the centre of a road so different >> administrations were responsible for maintaining the left & the right. > > And yet: exactly that is done. > > Commonly there's a maintenance arrangement, but I could hop on a bicycle and > in a few moments take a photo of > a street paved in halves for exactly this reason. > > Even if legal boundary is one edge of the road the customary boundary is > likely 'the road', and nobody > short of a land surveyor really need care. Roads in OSM are a funny beast > since they're drawn with zero dimension, > but rendered and processed with width depending on the emphasis of the > result. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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