i originally brought this up here because i am dealing with border issues in the US. however, this would need to be implemented world wide, i think, so i'll broach the subject on talk for a more general discussion.
On 11/4/13 3:03 AM, Simon Poole wrote: > IMHO we shouldn't and I don't believe it is necessary to, give up the > principle of everybody can edit anything, even in the case of admin borders. > > On the one hand we have cases where the borders are estimates generated > by mappers because there are no available and free sources, on the other > hand we can react faster to changes than your typical government GIS > agency (example: we have a largish number of municipality mergers each > year here, 2012 around 40, we had merged boarder polygons available > months before the official ones were available). As a consequence I > think it would be best to have borders (and other similar objects) in a > separate DB/layer/whatever (makes live simpler for nearly everybody and > stops the typical accident from happening), but the data should still be > edited by our standard tools (in other words the API should stay the > same) and by anybody with a OSM account. > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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