I noticed in the past few days that user Alexander Roalter has been converting administrative boundaries in the Midwest to relations (which I think is good) but in some cases he's combined state and county boundaries with physical features, especially rivers. A prime example is the eastern border of Iowa and western border of Illinois now shares the same ways as the Mississippi River. I personally feel that combining administrative borders with other features is not the right way to handle the borders - while the boundaries may originally have been defined by the river that won't always hold, see the history of Carter Lake, Iowa for an example.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/161650 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Carter_Lake,_Iowa http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alexander%20Roalter/edits -- Jeff Ollie _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
