+1 from me. I believe the whole U.S. boundary relation actually contains all the state boundaries as subareas. I've never understood the use. I guess a couple of times it made downloading the state relations for editing easier but I have other ways of doing that...
Toby On Jan 7, 2015 7:23 PM, "Dave F." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > This UK county boundary (admin level = 6): > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/57533#map=9/51.1854/-1.8237 > > contains nested boundary relations (tagged with role=subarea) with > numerically higher admin levels: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3410643#map=13/51.3398/-2.2428 > > Are they relevant? If so, what are they for? The wiki suggests they're > superseded: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary#Relation_members > > To me, subarea appears to be used in a similar way to the superseded > 'is_in' tag, For the same reasons that tag was deprecated, mathematics & > the admin_level tag can be used to determine if one polygon is inside > another. They seem to be purely extra baggage > > Am I missing something or can these nested relations be removed? > > Cheers > Dave F. > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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