Two remarks: - I believe that the border matches geographic features is a bit of a red herring. There are all kinds of different practices over the world (here for example the borders are very very often drawn not to coincide with roads, and will run parallel to them at some distance to avoid fights over who is responsible for maintenance) and I don't think that using any single one of them is going to help the discussion. In the end generally geographic features tend to change slowly so ignoring such linkage is probably not a problem in reality. What is clear that a novice user does not expect that refining am unrelated feature will change of break an admin boundary.
- I do not see how filters in editors do anything more to this issue than make it worse, particularly in the case when the border has been merged with an other object. Do you make the object immutable? Or do you simply hide the fact that you are now potentially breaking something (as JOSM does)? Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
