On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Alan Mintz
<[email protected]<alan_mintz%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> It's exactly because they are added from different sources that it is
> incorrect to merge them. If you adjust a border from a "more accurate"
> source, you should adjust that border, not everything else that is glued to
> it (other than that of it's neighbor siblings). The source you use for the
> border is correct for the border alone. It may happen to coincide in places
> with the physical centerline of a feature, but that doesn't necessarily mean
> they are the same thing.
>
> --
> Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
>
>
> You missunderstood : the definition of the border IS the middle of the road
or river. If we find a legal source for the admin boundary, it is most of
the time less accurate then a GPS trace following the feature irl.

Pieren
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