Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew
Chris Hill osm@... writes: physical features such as streams and rivers that form part of the boundaries need to be integrated. What do you mean by that? -- Andrew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/21/11 13:36, Andrew wrote: as streams and rivers that form part of the boundaries need to be integrated. What do you mean by that? If the centreline of the river (or a road, or a coastline) *is* the boundary, then you do *not* want a separate way in the OSM database describing

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: On 01/21/11 13:36, Andrew wrote: as streams and rivers that form part of the boundaries need to be integrated. What do you mean by that? If the centreline of the river (or a road, or a coastline) *is* the boundary, then you do *not* want a separate way in the OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew
Frederik Ramm frederik@... writes: If the centreline of the river (or a road, or a coastline) *is* the boundary, then you do *not* want a separate way in the OSM database describing the boundary; you want a multipolygon describing the boundary where one part of the multipolygon hull is the

[Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-20 Thread Brian Prangle
Is anyone working on importing the boundaries from the shape file available from OS OpenData? Does it have ward level boundaries for major cities? ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-GB] Administrative Borders

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Hill
On 20/01/11 11:18, Brian Prangle wrote: Is anyone working on importing the boundaries from the shape file available from OS OpenData? Does it have ward level boundaries for major cities? I have imported parish boundaries and the county boundary in my local area. It is hard work because they