On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Ian Dees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > While I was trying to figure out how to divide the massive NHD dataset into > more management pieces, I found a county boundary dataset and converted it > to OSM. > > I uploaded Wisconsin and Minnesota county boundaries and submit them for > your review. One minor issue: > > http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=1036&y=1489&z=12&layer=tile > ... shows that each county is a separate, closed way in OSM. This means > that at most boundaries, the dashed lines that are used to render political > boundaries are overlapping and look odd. I can't see a way around this > without losing metadata. > > If you have any opinion on how this data is represented, please let me > know. Otherwise, I will upload the rest of the country later on this > weekend. >
Why not split them up into sections with county:left=some county and county:right=some other county? These should generally not be edited, so the "way reversal" argument is moot. Or, alternatively, create relations for the counties with all the constituent ways. Karl
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