On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:31 AM, David ``Smith'' <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> You're still acting like the tags are put on regions, when the tags >> are actually put on borders. > > It's both. The relation (specifically, boundary and multipolygon > relations) is meant to describe not just some borders of a region, but > all of its borders, in a way to make it clear whether a given point is > in that region or not. Therefore, the relation defines a region. You > put tags on the relation, so you are effectively tagging the region, > not just its borders.
I was talking specifically about the "admin_level" tag though, since that's the one you were saying shouldn't cross. Obviously the boundary relation should be defined to reflect reality - if a city region intersects multiple county regions, then that's the way it has to be tagged. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
