I recently started converting the Iowa and Minnesota county borders from
simple ways to correct boundary relations, which means also removing the
doubled ways the adjacent areas share.
So far, so good, but I encountered some questions:
Shouldn't county borders always coincide with state borders? In the case
of the Minnesota/Iowa border, there were often differences up to 150
meters. I then used the state borders as the 'better' solution and
extended/capped the county lines. What would be the best way to do?
As far as I know, town borders/city limits not necessarily have to
concide with county borders, as there are some towns that are part of
two counties. But if only a few meters of the border lie in another
county, I think one of the borders is misaligned. I didn't change
anything about city boundaries yet, because I didn't know what would be
the best way to go.
Lastly, I was wondering about the Minnesota north east border. Here, we
have Cook County, but does Cook county extend all the way into Lake
Superior to coincide with the state border, or does it stop at the shore
line, and the lake area (up until the common border in the lake to
Wisconsin) isn't associated with any county? Does someone know more
about the situation there? I can only compare it with the areas in Italy
I know of, where municipalities, provinces and regions all extend to the
shore line (and the border is drawn as such), but the country border is
12 km into the sea, as is international custom, which means the area
isn't part of any province/region/municipality.
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cheers,
Alex
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