2009/9/28 Matthias Versen <s...@mversen.de>: > John Smith wrote: > >> These aren't state borders these are administrative borders >> (postcodes, town etc), and I'm filling in missing sections manually to >> complete postcodes as these weren't imported manually, as a result the >> relation isn't correct, each section of the way needs to be tagged >> with these values. > > I used country/state as example for administrative borders. > I still don't under stand your problem ! > > For every administrative border you create a relation and give this > relation the tags it needs. The whole relation itself represents an > area. The members of the relations are short border lines. > > It makes no sense for me why you want to tag each way or why the way > must be in one part. > It can be in one part but it seems that it's not possible because of the > 2000 Node/way limit and in such a case you create a relation.
At the time it was split it may have exceeded 2000 nodes, since I've been adding other boundaries the existing way was effectively split by the intersecting boundary now the relation isn't accurate or the same as every other boundary similar to it.. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
