OSM is not the ideal tool to be a dumping ground for all GIS data. It excels at holding information that users can see, verify and update. Boundaries like this cannot be seen or verified by anyone except the government agency that originally made them. So the data gains no benefit from being in OSM and in fact makes it more difficult to update both the boundary data as well as non-boundary data in the vicinity.
Yes, we do have national/state/county/city boundaries. Some people aren't happy about this either... but they are tolerated because they enable geocoding functionality. Toby On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Charles P. Lamb <cl...@acm.org> wrote: > Looking thorough the OSM Wiki Map Features entry there didn't really seem to > be features defined for such things as legislative districts, polling place > districts, and land-use zoning. I don't think such features are peculiar to > the USA. Am I missing something? > > Thanks, > > Charles P. Lamb > New Jersey > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us