On 23 Jun 2009, at 12:26, Paul Jaggard wrote:
>
> Bristol ("City and County") has an interesting boundary - it follows
> the
> bank of the River Avon out to the Severn estuary, then takes a large
> strip
> out of the Bristol Channel down to a pair of islands beyond Cardiff
> and
> Weston-s-M.
>
> Seems that the water off the shore of a fair bit of North Somerset
> belongs
> to Bristol.
>
> A BBC news article about it here:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7019663.stm
>
> I traced the boundary from NPE some time ago based on this, but I
> notice
> that since then someone has redone the Bristol boundary and has
> removed the
> relevant ways, chopping back the water boundary to the end of the
> Avon.
That someone was me. I have been doing a lot of tidy-up work on
boundaries across England, removing duplicate ways and parallel ways,
adding coastal sections of boundary and have probably taken a few
features backwards in the process for which I appologise.
One problem with OSM at present is that without citations for the
information in Ways one doesn't know what the basis of a feature is
and whether one has better information about it or not. Possibly their
should be a section on the Bristol wiki page citing these sources or a
'source:boundary' tag in the relationship although one might need
multiple sources for a boundary.
Regards,
Peter
>
> Paul
> (southglos)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:55 +0100
> From: Chris Hill <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Talk-GB] Counties and coasts
> To: Talk GB <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> I'm interested the relations of the boundaries for counties. I notice
> that some counties (and recently English Regions) include the way for
> the coastline (natural=coastline), and some coastal counties do not.
>
> I think that coastal counties would benefit from a way to close the
> boundary, but does it make sense to use the coastline? The coastline
> way probably indicates cliffs or a sea wall, yet there is often some
> beach or tidal flats beyond this on the seaward side. I understand
> that
> councils are responsible for the beach so the county could be said to
> extend beyond what we currently mark as the coastline. Does anyone
> know
> where council boundaries actually end with respect to the sea and
> coastline?
>
> Cheers, Chris
>
>
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