Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania

2018-08-26 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-08-27 00:24, Mark Goodge wrote: > On 26/08/2018 21:36, Colin Smale wrote: On 2018-08-26 21:17, David Woolley > wrote: > > It looks to me as though boundaries can be defined recursively, so Hampshire, > rather than its bounding ways, ought to to be the object referenced in the > bigger

Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania

2018-08-26 Thread Mark Goodge
On 26/08/2018 21:36, Colin Smale wrote: On 2018-08-26 21:17, David Woolley wrote: It looks to me as though boundaries can be defined recursively, so Hampshire, rather than its bounding ways, ought to to be the object referenced in the bigger entities. This wouldn't work in the case of civil

Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania

2018-08-26 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-08-26 21:17, David Woolley wrote: > It looks to me as though boundaries can be defined recursively, so Hampshire, > rather than its bounding ways, ought to to be the object referenced in the > bigger entities. This wouldn't work in the case of civil parishes as components of districts

Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania

2018-08-26 Thread Mark Goodge
On 26/08/2018 20:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 08/26/2018 12:46 PM, Colin Smale wrote: It has gone all quiet here, and in the mean time smb001 has been making steady progress across England. I think he shouldn't have done this. He should have argued his case here and the community should

Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania

2018-08-26 Thread David Woolley
On 26/08/18 20:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: I think we should all think twice before duplicating and triplicating data in OSM just because there's yet another boundary that includes Hampshire. We should find a way to reference existing boundaries instead of copying them. It looks to me as though

Re: [Talk-GB] boundary mania (was: 'historic' county boundaries added to the database)

2018-08-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/26/2018 12:46 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > It has gone all quiet here, and in the mean time smb001 has been making > steady progress across England. I think he shouldn't have done this. He should have argued his case here and the community should have come to an explicit resolution,