Dave Stubbs wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Shaun McDonald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1 Jun 2008, at 22:52, Cartinus wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 01 June 2008 17:43:11 Karl Newman wrote: >>>>> The examples that keep being quoted are of 'towns' that straddle >>>>> state >>>>> boundaries in the US >>> I don't know any examples of "towns" straddling state boundaries, >>> but "towns" >>> straddling county boundaries are common enough to break the model. >>> >>> Here is one example of a city that is "part of" three counties: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%2C_Colorado >>> >>> The authority of the municipalities is granted by the states, not by >>> the >>> counties. >> Here's another. Worcester Park sits on the boundary of 3 English >> counties >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.38053&lon=-0.24354&zoom=15&layers=B00FF >> > > How's that relevant? > Is there a Worcester Park administrative area that you know of > straddling the boundaries?
ACTUALLY it may well be that one authority is responsible for some aspects even where the area is in a different county. I pay RATES to Gloucestershire, but the Business premises are a Worcestershire postal address. Things are simply not black and white when it comes to abstract concepts like boundaries ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
