On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:43 AM, El Segundo Can't win <el_segundo_cant_...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > I deleted a few locality boundaries in my local area, because they were > irritating me and getting in the way of re-mapping all the tainted ways and > nodes. > > I thought I would rebuild them using actual streets and other physical > boundaries (this is my local area, I know where they are), rather than the > under and in the way thing that most locality boundaries are, plus they'd be > CT compliant to boot.
The discussion on attaching boundaries to physical objects appears on other local lists and talk@ and dev@ at various times. Lots of opinions. :-) And quite some variation in personal mapping styles. > but then I thought, maybe I should take the big picture and wait for a new > import, maybe even an official gazetted locality dataset. It would certainly > save me time right now. If I do that though, the plain deletion could be > seen as vandalism. I think combining the boundary deletion with remapping is not-vandalism. Cleanup by a local mapper, while attending to the data is much better than purging by a script, in my opinion. > I don't think doing both is a great idea, because any boundaries I build > will just be an annoyance when/if an import is done. > > Are there any opinions on the matter, strong or not? I'd like to see "somebody" document a quick and easy way to access official boundary data outside the OSM DB. Mapnik could display the boundaries as a layer when desired by the consumer. Nominatim can search w.r.t. external sources. $something is used to make your local postgis queries do the right thing. This sounds harder than just putting the boundary data in the OSM DB. But keeping a local OSM DB up to date also sounded hard until minutely mapnik and replication diffs were created. Suddenly it doesn't seem so hard. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
